Slightly high lead tied to less reading readiness

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Slightly high lead tied to less reading readiness

By Kerry Grens NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children with even slightly elevated blood lead levels are less likely to be ready to read when starting kindergarten, according to a new study. Lead has been shown to affect school performance, but what's important in this study is "looking at even fairly low levels of lead exposure and still finding significant impacts on kindergarten reading readiness," said Marie Lynn Miranda, a professor at Michigan State University, who was not part of the research. ...

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