"Doctors Say BPA Shows Up Too Often in Diabetics and Heart Patients." Story here.
An ubiquitous ingredient in plastics has been linked to diabetes and heart disease in adults, according to a study being released today, heightening concerns about the widespread use of the chemical BPA.
Otherwise known as bisphenol A, BPA is the chemical once studied as a synthetic form of estrogen, but more recently known to leach out of some plastic water bottles and baby bottles, and that is found in all kinds of plastic products. . . .
The concerns of people like Poquette will likely be heightened by a study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association in which researchers found a connection between BPA and diabetes and heart disease in adults. Scientists reviewed the health of 1,455 American adults and found that people with higher concentrations of BPA in their urine were slightly more likely to have heart disease and diabetes. . . .
"In issues of human safety, an agent which can be avoided and which has no redeeming features is 'guilty until proven otherwise,'" [Stanford University School of Medicine professor of health research and policy, Dr. John Farquhar,] said. . . .
"Unfortunately, in this country, I don't think BPAs in food containers pose a fraction of the threat to heart health as most of the food products that they contain," said Dr. Daniel Edmundowicz, director of Cardiovascular Medicine at UPMC Passavant Hospital in Pittsburg, Pa.
"Said another way -- I think the BPAs in a container of butter pose less risk than than butter itself," Edmundowicz said.
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