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Lead Levels and Ischemic Heart Disease in a Prospective Study of Middle-Aged and Elderly Men: the VA Normative Aging Study

BACKGROUND: Lead exposure has been associated with higher blood pressure, hypertension, electrocardiogram abnormalities, and increased mortality from circulatory causes. OBJECTIVE: We assessed the association between bone lead—a more accurate biomarker of chronic lead exposure than blood lead—and ri...

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Autores principales: Jain, Nitin B., Potula, Vijayalakshmi, Schwartz, Joel, Vokonas, Pantel S., Sparrow, David, Wright, Robert O., Nie, Huiling, Hu, Howard
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1892138/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17589593
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.9629