Ново проучване повдига аларми за пластмасите и сърдечните заболявания. Here’s What to Know.
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The news made for an alarming headline this week: Research showed that common chemicals in plastics were associated with 350,000 heart disease deaths across the world in 2018.
Статистиката идва от изследване, оповестено в понеделник в списанието Ebiomedicine. The authors, a group of researchers at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine, estimated that roughly 13 percent of cardiovascular deaths among 55- to 64-year-olds worldwide that year could be attributed to phthalates, which are used in food packaging, shampoo, toys and more.
Research on the effect of phthalates on cardiovascular disease is still emerging, but their link to metabolic risk factors like obesity suggest they could play a role in heart disease.
While experts agree that phthalates are harmful, they cautioned that the study relied on complex statistical modeling and a series of assumptions and estimates that make it difficult to determine how many deaths might be linked to the Химикали.
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Какво е ясно от изследването, споделиха специалистите, е, че се нуждаем от повече проучвания на експозицията на фталат и обвързваните с тях опасности за здравето. Though it would be ethically impossible and impractical to do a classic randomized trial, in which one group of people were exposed to phthalates and others were not and they were followed for many years, other types of studies could help more clearly establish a link.
One way, Dr. Park said, would be to have researchers recruit a large, representative sample of patients, measure their levels of exposure and follow them for години, може би до гибелта. Dr. Huffman suggested it would also be worthwhile to try out strategies that might reduce exposure levels and then measure any changes in health outcomes.
Tracey Woodruff, director of the program on reproductive health and the environment at the University of California, San Francisco, said that despite the uncertainties in the estimates of the current paper, it is clear that phthalates can increase рисковете от прибързано раждане, репродуктивни проблеми и метаболитни разстройства. За нея констатациите прибавят единствено листата с аргументи за понижаване на количеството на фталатите във веригата на доставки.
