Lead exposure hurts our heart health—even when the exposure was long ago
JAMA | Jeffrey D. Stanaway, Sandra Spearman, et al. Researchers examined 25years of data from 42,000 people to study environmental lead exposure and cardiovascular deaths. The data collection began in 1988, when lead exposure from gas and paint was already declining, but based on extrapolations from their findings, they estimate roughly 3.5 million deaths in 2023—primarily from cardiovascular causes—were likely due to past lead exposure. (Read)


