BISPHENOL RISK

Heart Risk of BPA Confirmed Download Complimentary Source PDF

By Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: January 13, 2010 Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner Researchers have confirmed that the bisphenol A (BPA) -- widely used in plastics including baby bottles and other drink containers -- increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. Patients with the highest levels of the endocrine disruptor in their urine carried a 33% increased risk of coronary heart disease, a follow-up analysis of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data showed. But associations with diabetes and elevated liver enzymes, which were found in earlier data that the researchers reported in 2008, were no longer significant, David Melzer, PhD, of Peninsula Medical School in Exeter, England, and colleagues reported online in PLoS ONE. (See Common Chemical Linked to Metabolic and Cardiovascular Disorders)