Environmental metals and cardiovascular disease

BMJ. 2018 Aug 29:362:k3435. doi: 10.1136/bmj.k3435.

Maria Tellez-Plaza 1^{1

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3}, Eliseo Guallar 2^{4

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6}, Ana Navas-Acien 3^{4

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¹ Department of Chronic Diseases Epidemiology, National Center for Epidemiology, National Health Institutes Carlos III (Madrid) and Biomedical Research Institute Hospital Clinic de Valencia INCLIVA (Valencia), Calle de Melchor Fernández Almagro, 5, 28029 Madrid, Spain m.tellez@isciii.es.
² Departments of Epidemiology and Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA m.tellez@isciii.es.
³ Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA m.tellez@isciii.es.
⁴ Department of Chronic Diseases Epidemiology, National Center for Epidemiology, National Health Institutes Carlos III (Madrid) and Biomedical Research Institute Hospital Clinic de Valencia INCLIVA (Valencia), Calle de Melchor Fernández Almagro, 5, 28029 Madrid, Spain.
⁵ Departments of Epidemiology and Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁶ Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA.

Abstract

Metals are an important but neglected source of CV risk