BPA Linked to Heart Disease

The news about BPA goes from bad to worse. When we last visited the topic, we learned that the ingredient found in many plastics, such as water bottles, had been linked to erectile dysfunction. Now comes epidemiological research from the Peninsula Medical School in England linking the chemical to heart disease. The Scientific American reports on the study, which found that 10 percent of men aged 60 or older who were among the top third in BPA
concentrations developed cardiovascular disease compared with roughly 7
percent of similarly aged men with the lowest BPA concentrations.

Read more in the Scientific American.