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  imarketing4s3 months, 1 week ago

  Ive heard of this before and if its proven, there should be precautionary measures about women being in this line of work

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  aceofspades13 months, 1 week ago

  very interesting post starmuscle - just shows you are not very smart - the "lead" in pencils is graphite - no lead content

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  aceofspades13 months, 1 week ago

  high levels of lead in adult criminal's brains usually cause death

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  Charlson3 months, 1 week ago

  "In a third, unrelated study, a team of University of Pittsburgh researchers showed adults can be inoculated with a second wave of lead as they get older."

  What is this study about? Inoculated with lead poison? Inoculated for what? Lead poisoning?

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    nostalgia3 months, 1 week ago

    Charlson

    It's explained in the very last paragraph:

    "Writing in the Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health, Lisa Morrow and colleagues showed that lead can leach into the blood from bones as people age and lose bone mass."

    In this case "inoculated" refers to an adult having lead entering the blood as it is released from their own bones as the bones lose mass due to aging

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      Charlson3 months, 1 week ago

      The word "inoculate", to me, means introducing a virus or other antigenic material inorder to immunize, cure, or experiment. That is what I found confusing.

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        nostalgia3 months, 1 week ago

        Charlson

        I was a nurse

        Sometimes the authors of this type of article do a very poor job of translating "medicalese" and simply use the terms in the original research report of the study

        They never stop to think what the common meaning of a term is to nonmedical people

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