Cumulative Community-Level Lead Exposure and Pulse Pressure: The Normative Aging Study

BACKGROUND: Pulse pressure increases with age in industrialized societies as a manifestation of arterial stiffening. Lead accumulates in the vasculature and is associated with vascular oxidative stress, which can promote functional and structural vascular disease. OBJECTIVES: We tested the hypothesi...

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Autores principales: Perlstein, Todd, Weuve, Jennifer, Schwartz, Joel, Sparrow, David, Wright, Robert, Litonjua, Augusto, Nie, Huiling, Hu, Howard
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 2007
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2137129/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18087585
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.10350

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2137129/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18087585
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.10350

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