Childhood lead exposure is associated with 'volume loss' in adults

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 10:07 in Health & Medicine

Childhood exposure to lead is associated with shrinking ('volume loss') of specific parts of the brain in adulthood, finds a related study in this week's PLoS Medicine. Dr Kim Cecil and colleagues (University of Cincinnati, USA) studied the association between exposure to lead in the uterus and during early childhood and brain volume in adulthood...

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