The Association of Arsenic Exposure and Arsenic Metabolism With the Metabolic Syndrome and Its Individual Components: Prospective Evidence From the Strong Heart Family Study.

ABSTRACT: Inorganic arsenic exposure is ubiquitous, and both exposure and interindividual differences in its metabolism have been associated with cardiometabolic risk. However, the associations of arsenic exposure and arsenic metabolism with the metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its individual components are relatively unknown. We used Poisson regression with robust variance to evaluate the associations of baseline arsenic exposure (urinary arsenic levels) and metabolism (relative percentage of arsenic species over their sum) with incident MetS and its individual components (elevated waist circumference, elevated triglycerides, reduced high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, hypertension, and elevated fasting plasma glucose) in 1,047 participants from the Strong Heart Family Study, a prospective family-ba

SUBMITTER: Spratlen MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6070055 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature