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

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

Author(s) -

Todd S. Perlstein,

Jennifer Weuve,

Joel Schwartz,

David Sparrow,

Robert E. Wright,

Augusto A. Litonjua,

Huiling Nie,

Howard Hu

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.10350

Subject(s) - pulse pressure , blood pressure , medicine , confidence interval , lead (geology) , pulse wave velocity , cardiology , lead exposure , surgery , endocrinology , biology , paleontology , cats

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.

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