Boston -- Could there be a link between lead poisoning early in life, and violent crime later on?
Exposure to lead could lead to a life of violent crime. That's the conclusion of two studies of families from a section of Cincinnati, where many houses were old and contaminated with lead...
Kim Dietrich at the University of Cincinnati, who conducted one of the studies, says every 5-microgram increase in blood lead at six years of age increases the risk of being arrested for violent crime as a young adult by almost 50%.
Despite government efforts to limit exposure to lead, it remains a nagging problem. Criminologist Deborah Denno did pioneering work establishing the lead-crime connection 20-years ago...
Denno says it's a shame this national problem still exists, when it's been known about for years...
The new studies were published in the journal "PLoS Medicine."
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