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How does lead damage your child?
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In a few ways: Blood lead level and cognitive score has an inverse relationship. Higher blood lead causes hyperactivity in young children and aggressivess in older children. Lead adversely affects heme synthesis resulting in anemia.
Answered 11/4/2012
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