Childhood exposure to leaded gasoline may be responsible for more than 150 million mental health disorders in Americans alive today. That’s the shocking takeaway from a recent study published in ...
Lead was added to organic gasoline compounds to increase the fuel’s resistance to pre-ignition from the 1920s through its banning in 1996. Lead exposure reached its peak in the 1960s.
Researchers revealed that members of Generation X had historically-high levels of exposure to lead due to car exhausts with ...
A history of lead in gasoline may be behind tens of millions of mental health conditions in the United States, according to new research. “We’ve shifted the curve in the population for mental ...
There were several common ways people were exposed during these decades, including lead in gasoline, consumer products, and water lines. Leaded gasoline was the standard in cars until unleaded was ...
Exposure to lead in gasoline during childhood resulted in many millions of excess cases of psychiatric disorders over the last 75 years, a new study estimates. Lead was banned from automobile fuel ...