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Living in a racially segregated neighborhood puts Black children at a higher risk of having elevated blood lead levels, and this association has persisted over more than two decades, according to new research from the Children's Environmental Health Initiative, which is led by University of Illinois Chicago Chancellor Marie Lynn Miranda.
Young children may still be exposed to lead-based paint in homes constructed before 1978, when the hazardous paint was outlawed. […] The post Children living in predominantly Black neighborhoods at higher risk for lead poisoning, study says appeared first on TheGrio.