Heart to Heart: New Study Links BPA to Heart Disease In Adults
In case you needed more evidence that BPA should be kept out of products like children’s food containers and canned foods, a new study has confirmed previous findings linking exposure to BPA to heart disease in adults. Our staff scientist breaks down the study and explains why the study is so significant.
In case you needed more evidence that bisphenol A (BPA) should be kept out of products like children’s food containers and canned foods that we use every day, a new study has confirmed previous findings linking exposure to BPA to heart disease in adults.
Researchers from the University of Exeter in England analyzed new data from the Centers for Disease Control on BPA levels, with 1,493 new samples of American adults. This information constitutes the largest and best quality information available on levels in people.
With this large new population, the researchers found that people with higher exposure to BPA were more likely to have heart problems. Based on this data, the authors estimate that a 60 year-old man with higher exposure to BPA would be 45% more likely to have heart disease.
The findings are highly significant because they show a correlation between BPA and actual health impacts in humans, and provide a confirmation of similar results from an entirely different group of people.
According to a Toronto Globe and Mail article on the study :
The second finding of a heart-disease connection “underlines the question mark over the human health safety of BPA; it means that [earlier] association wasn’t just a one-off thing,” says David Melzer, an epidemiologist at Peninsula Medical School in Britain and a member of the team that conducted both studies.
