Background exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls and all-cause, cancer-specific, and cardiovascular-specific mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis

CONCLUSION: Our meta-analysis suggests that background exposure to PCBs is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular-specific mortality in the general population with a "moderate" level of evidence. These findings should be interpreted with caution given the small number of studies on mortality in the general population.PMID:34082240 | DOI:10.1016/j.envint.2021.106663

Source: Environment International - June 3, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Thibault Fiolet Yahya Mahamat-Saleh Pauline Frenoy Marina Kvaskoff Francesca Romana Mancini Source Type: research