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Re:Low-level lead exposure and mortality in US adults by portofcall on Monday March 19, 2018 @05:56PM (#16623595)
Very little, but the question raised by this study is how much lead leads to death. They’re claiming the answer is very very little, and further claiming that it accounts for more deaths than COPD, infections, and accidents combined. They did this based on a survey and blood levels, without taking many (if any) confounding factors into account.

As to why they’d do this, the lead author’s role as an expert witness for plaintiffs in cases of lead poisoning seems suggestive.

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Re:Low-level lead exposure and mortality in US adults by pointAndCall on Monday March 19, 2018 @06:09PM (#16623712)
Considering the primary adverse effect of lead poisoning is neurological, and psychiatric conditions are its fallout, if poor lifestyle choices are the result of bad decisions, perhaps low-level lead exposure fuels a simmering sub-clinical hopelessness that defies treatment, and provokes poor self care.

Everybody is such a big fan of LSD microdosing, and maybe this is the other side of that coin.

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Re:Low-level lead exposure and mortality in US adults by portofcall on Monday March 19, 2018 @06:43PM (#16624007)
Most poeple aren’t a fan of LSD microdosing, including me. I’m a fan of studies which honestly account for confounding factors and draw a line between causation and correlation. This ain’t that.
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