De-Wei An, Yu-Ling Yu, Azusa Hara, Dries S Martens, Wen-Yi Yang, Yi-Bang Cheng, Qi-Fang Huang, Kei Asayama, Katarzyna Stolarz-Skrzypek, Marek Rajzer, Peter Verhamme, Tim S Nawrot, Yan Li, Jan A Staessen
OBJECTIVES: We undertook time-stratified analyses of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in the US to assess time trends (1999-2020) in the associations of blood lead (BL) with blood pressure, mortality, the BL-associated population attributable fraction (PAF). METHODS: Vital status of participants, 20-79 years old at enrolment, was ascertained via the National Death Index. Regressions, mediation analyses and PAF were multivariable adjusted and standardized to 2020 US Census data...
March 15, 2024: Journal of Hypertension