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Wed Jun 10, 2009 at 14:19:55 PM PDT
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Yeah, it isn't stopping anytime soon...
- A new study finds BPA may contribute to heart disease in women. FDA agreed earlier this month to review their decision on BPA, and hopefully they'll use real science this time.
Women are more likely to die from heart attacks than men mostly because of problems caused by arrhythmias, Belcher said.
"It looks like BPA will be very harmful to the female heart," he said.
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Low doses of BPA "markedly increased" arrhythmias, [Scott] Belcher [leader of the University of Cincinnati research team] said, and the effect was amplified when the heart cells were exposed to both BPA and estrogen.
Two more items below the fold... |
| JayinPortland :: This Week In BPA: Heart Disease In Women, Fertility Defects |
- According to Hugh Taylor, MD, professor and chief of the reproductive endocrinology section at Yale University School of Medicine, "There is nothing [for pregnant women] to lose by avoiding items made with BPA-and maybe a lot to gain." -
Exposure during pregnancy to the chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, found in many common plastic household items, is known to cause a fertility defect in the mother's offspring in animal studies, and now researchers have found how the defect occurs. The results of the new study will be presented June 13 at The Endocrine Society's 91st Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
- A third recent study from researchers at the University of Missouri once again finds -
[R]esearchers warned that people may be getting higher-than-recommended exposure to BPA from both known and unknown sources, a conclusion they drew from research involving monkeys.
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