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March 2, 2009
Fewer kids have high lead levels
Researchers are calling it a stunning improvement in children's health: far fewer kids have high lead levels than 20 years ago, according to a new report in the March edition of Pediatrics. The findings – a drop from nine per cent of young children with elevated levels in 1988 to 1.9 per cent in 2004 – are due to rigorous efforts over the years to get lead, which can interfere with the developing nervous system, out of paint, water and soil, researchers say. SFU health sciences professor Bruce Lanphear, a noted expert on children’s environmental health, says levels have likely continued to decline since the latest data available in 2004, but he believes prevention efforts are still necessary. Lanphear is currently the principal investigator for a study on fetal and early childhood exposures to everything from lead and pesticides to tobacco smoke.
Bruce Lanphear, 778.782.8650; bruce_lanphear@sfu.ca
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Julie Ovenell-Carter, 604.649.8494; joc@sfu.ca
Researchers are calling it a stunning improvement in children's health: far fewer kids have high lead levels than 20 years ago, according to a new report in the March edition of Pediatrics. The findings – a drop from nine per cent of young children with elevated levels in 1988 to 1.9 per cent in 2004 – are due to rigorous efforts over the years to get lead, which can interfere with the developing nervous system, out of paint, water and soil, researchers say. SFU health sciences professor Bruce Lanphear, a noted expert on children’s environmental health, says levels have likely continued to decline since the latest data available in 2004, but he believes prevention efforts are still necessary. Lanphear is currently the principal investigator for a study on fetal and early childhood exposures to everything from lead and pesticides to tobacco smoke.
Bruce Lanphear, 778.782.8650; bruce_lanphear@sfu.ca
Attention arts media:
Sign up now for a tour of our new Woodward's site
If you are an arts writer, reporter, editor or blogger, we invite you to register your interest in a tour of downtown Vancouver's most exciting new cultural property: SFU Contemporary Arts at Woodward's. The school's new home is nearing completion, and over the next several months we will organize small bi-weekly media tours. To get a sneak peek of the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre and other highlights, please advise communications coordinator Julie Ovenell-Carter via e-mail or Twitter; she will be in touch with details: joc@sfu.ca or www.twitter.com/sfuwoodwards/
Julie Ovenell-Carter, 604.649.8494; joc@sfu.ca