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Research shows that lead is directly connected to health-related illnesses that’ve been linked to maternal deaths in New Jersey.

“Lead is something that we know is associated with preeclampsia, it’s associated with thrombosis, it’s associated with high blood pressure, low birth weight,” said Brian Buckley, executive director and director of research at the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute at Rutgers University. “There’s a bunch of things that lead is associated with that are risk factors in pregnancy. We know that mom passes lead to baby through the placenta. When they do that, baby’s born lead burdened.”

And yet, there’s no clinical guidance, here in New Jersey or across the nation, for screening people for lead exposure during pregnancy. Buckley has conducted research at Rutgers, looking at pregnant moms and the impact of lead in the system during gestation.

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(Source: NJ Spotlight News – Joanna Gagis – October 25, 2024)