Executive summary Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and premature
death in the world today. Diseases caused by pollution were responsible for an estimated 9 …

As the median age of the population increases, the number of individuals with Alzheimer's
disease (AD) and the associated socio-economic burden are predicted to worsen. While …

Lead is a developmental neurotoxicant in wide industrial use that was once broadly
distributed in the environment. The extent of the US population exposed in early life to high …

Biological aging is the gradual, progressive decline in system integrity that occurs with
advancing chronological age, causing morbidity and disability. Measurements of the pace of …

An important 2019 paper applied a novel analytic technique called Specification Curve
Analysis (SCA) to data from three large-scale community samples to investigate the …

Social determinants of health are nonmedical factors that can affect a person's overall health
and health outcomes. Where a person is born and the social conditions they are born into …

Heavy metals are naturally existing elements that have relatively high atomic weight and a
minimum density five times the density of water. Heavy metals have extensive applications …

Pb‐based perovskite solar cells (PSCs) as one of the most promising photovoltaic
technologies for commercialization have attracted tremendous attention in recent years …

Lead toxicity is a major public health issue in developed and developing countries. Both
acute and chronic lead exposure has the potential to cause many deleterious systematic …

Background: Lead can adversely affect child health across a wide range of exposure levels.
We describe the distribution of blood lead levels (BLLs) in US children ages 1–11 y by …