Heart disease deaths worldwide linked to chemical widely used in plastics

ScienceDaily
Apr 29, 2025, 10:31 am71 pts
Daily exposure to certain chemicals used to make plastic household items could be linked to more than 356,000 global deaths from heart disease in 2018 alone, a new analysis of population surveys shows. While the chemicals, called phthalates, are in widespread use globally, the Middle East, South Asia, East…

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