Studies confirm mortality risk from low levels of Lead.
Blood
Lead Levels and Death from All Causes, Cardiovascular Disease, and
Cancer: Results from the NHANES III Mortality Study Susan E. Schober, Lisa B. Mirel,* Barry I.
Graubard, Debra J. Brody, and Katherine M. Flegal
Environ
Health Perspectiive 114:1538–1541 (2006)
Blood
Lead Below 0.48 µmol/L (10 µg/dL) and Mortality
Among US Adults
Andy
Menke, MPH; Paul Muntner, PhD; Vecihi Batuman, MD; Ellen K. Silbergeld,
PhD; Eliseo Guallar, MD, DrPH
Circulation.
114:1388-1394 (2006) Lead
Toxicity
The use of EDTA Chelation started in the 1950s with boat builders who
suffered from Lead Poisoning, or Plumbism, and who then demonstrated
other benefits of lead detoxification.
While acute lead poisoning is not as common now as 50 years ago, there
is still large quantities of lead in the environment, and numerous
opportunity for continued exposure.
At CAM we now conduct routine Blood Lead Level (BLL) tests on our
client patients and recently several results have been at levels found
in acute toxicity by current OSH standards.
"Why
should I Get the Lead Out?"
"Blood lead levels once considered safe are
now considered hazardous, with no known threshold." ATSDR
monograph 2000.
"Lead, [is] unsafe at any level." World
Health Organisation 2002.
Our aim is to provide through this page details available in the
medical and scientific literature that demonstrate the negative health
effects of lead at levels much lower than current OSH safety limits. We
also aim to show the potential health benefits of removing lead from
our bodies.
To date the literature reviewed supports strong associations with low
level lead exposure and serious illnesses including;
- Cancer
- Kidney failure (particularly in Diabetes)
- Peripheral Arterial Disease
- Other heart and circulatory disease
including hypertension
- Neurological illness
- Bone disease
- Cognitive decline in children
It is also clear that lead plays a
significant
role in the Oxidative-stress process, which is a contributing factor to
most of the disease conditions mentioned above, and is of itself
related to numerous other modern illnesses.
Many people think that Lead poisoning is a thing of the past, as the
major sources, such as leaded petrol and leaded paint, have been
removed. Here are a few recent articles that seem to challenge this
view.
New
York times 17 January 2006 - Dally no longer - Get the Lead Out!
Exide factory in Petone still in
the news - DomPost Nov 2007
Lead
in toys causes massive recall by large manufacturer - Oct 2007
The Scientific and Medical Literature Review
Thus far we have reviewed over 100 papers concerning lead toxicity,
related disease conditions and detoxification.
For a full list, click
here.
We will continue on with this investigation with a view to provide much
greater understanding, both to our client patients and the general
population, of lead toxicity and why we should 'Get the Lead Out!'.
What
about me?
If you want to know about your own lead levels, or what this might mean
for your health, please contact
us.
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