Mostafa, M.A.; Abueissa, M.A.; Soliman, M.Z.; Ahmad, M.I.; Soliman, E.Z. Association between Blood Lead Levels and Silent Myocardial Infarction in the General Population. J. Clin. Med.2024, 13, 1582.
Mostafa, M.A.; Abueissa, M.A.; Soliman, M.Z.; Ahmad, M.I.; Soliman, E.Z. Association between Blood Lead Levels and Silent Myocardial Infarction in the General Population. J. Clin. Med. 2024, 13, 1582.
Mostafa, M.A.; Abueissa, M.A.; Soliman, M.Z.; Ahmad, M.I.; Soliman, E.Z. Association between Blood Lead Levels and Silent Myocardial Infarction in the General Population. J. Clin. Med.2024, 13, 1582.
Mostafa, M.A.; Abueissa, M.A.; Soliman, M.Z.; Ahmad, M.I.; Soliman, E.Z. Association between Blood Lead Levels and Silent Myocardial Infarction in the General Population. J. Clin. Med. 2024, 13, 1582.
Abstract
Background: Although the link between environmental lead exposure and several patterns of cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been reported, its association with silent myocardial infarc-tion (SMI) has not been explored. We aimed to assess the association between blood lead levels (BLL) and risk of SMI. Methods: This analysis included 7283 (mean age 56.1±2.52 years, 52.5% women) participants from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey who were free of clinical CVD. Ascertainment of BLL done using graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrophotometry. SMI defined as ECG evidence of MI without history of MI. Multivariable lo-gistic regression analysis was used to examine the association between SMI and BLL. Results: SMI was detected in 120 participants corresponding to an unweighted prevalence of 1.65%. Par-ticipants with higher levels of BLL had higher prevalence of SMI (0.4%, 0.9%, and 2.4% across BLL tertiles; p-value
Keywords
Silent Myocardial Infarction; Lead Exposure; Cardiovascular Disease; NHANES-III
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems
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