Sentences with phrase «iq point losses»
Jaffe also said it's hard to estimate IQ point losses without taking into account the state of schools in some of these countries.
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Lack of breastfeeding risks a loss of 8 to 10 IQ points and children who are not breastfed experience reduced academic performance.
We also demonstrate that that there is a real, quantifiable loss of IQ points due to these exposures, and that either reducing the amount of arsenic in rice and rice products, or switching the diets of infants and children to an alternative food lower in arsenic content will reduce this risk.
Across the U.S. population, replacing infant rice cereal containing arsenic with an alternate infant food not containing arsenic would result in additional annual earnings of approximately $ 1.2 to $ 1.8 billion by avoiding losses of almost 1 million IQ points per year; and
In the U.S. population of children aged 0 - 6, replacing all rice and rice products with alternate foods containing no arsenic would result in additional annual earnings of approximately $ 12 to $ 18 billion by avoiding losses of more than 9 million IQ points per year;
After adjusting for maternal IQ and education, characteristics of the home environment, school district, and number of siblings, the children who were exposed to greater than 5 parts arsenic per billion of household well water (WAs ≥ 5 μg / L) showed reductions in Full Scale, Working Memory, Perceptual Reasoning and Verbal Comprehension scores, losses of 5 - 6 points, considered a significant decline, that may translate to problems in school, according to Gail Wasserman, PhD, professor of Medical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia, and the study's first author.
In an October issue of Oslo's Aftenposten, Lehrl claimed three weeks of mental inactivity can cause an IQ loss of 20 points and a noticeable shrinkage of vocabulary.
More importantly, the EPA estimates — based on dubious epidemiological evidence and questionable demographic modeling — that the MACT Rule's Hg emission reductions will avert the loss of 0.00209 IQ points per child in a guesstimated population of 240,000 subsistence fishing households.