Miscarriage

Low Lead in Body Can Cause Spontaneous Abortion

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, September 27th, 1999

Medical scientists have known for decades that high levels of lead in the body often cause spontaneous abortions, but now a new study shows that lower lead levels can produce that result too.

The risk of spontaneous abortion nearly doubles for every increase of five micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood, the research revealed.

Dr. Irva Hertz-Picciotto, professor of epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health, Dr. Victor H. Borja-Aburto of Mexico's National Institute of Public Health, and colleagues conducted the study. A report appeared in the September 15, 1999, issue of the American Journal of...

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