Use of NHANES Data to Link Chemical Exposures to Chronic Diseases: A Cautionary Tale

Judy S. LaKind; Michael Goodman; Daniel Q. Naiman

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0051086

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Use of NHANES Data to Link Chemical Exposures to Chronic Diseases: A Cautionary Tale

Judy S. LaKind ,

* E-mail: lakindassoc@comcast.net

Affiliations LaKind Associates, LLC, Catonsville, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Michael Goodman,

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Emory University, School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Daniel Q. Naiman

Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Use of NHANES Data to Link Chemical Exposures to Chronic Diseases: A Cautionary Tale

Judy S. LaKind,
Michael Goodman,
Daniel Q. Naiman

Published: December 5, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051086

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Conflicts of interest
Support for our BPA work has been from the British Heart Foundation (a philanthropy) and internal University of Exeter resources, with no support from organisations with a commercial interest in BPA. We note with interest that Lakind has been supported by the Polycarbonate/BPA Global Group of the American Chemistry Council, whose mission is described at http://www.americanchemis....
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1) Calafat et al (Calafat et al Environ Health Perspect 116:39–44 (2008))

2) Melzer D, et al. Urinary bisphenol A concentration and risk of future coronary artery disease in apparently healthy men and women. Circulation. 2012 Mar 27;125(12):1482-90. Epub 2012 Feb 21
3) Melzer D, et al Urinary bisphenol a concentration and angiography-defined coronary artery stenosis.PLoS One. 2012;7(8):e43378. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043378. Epub 2012 Aug 15.

No competing interests declared.

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