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Borrell, Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York, UNITED STATES Further investigation is warranted in a larger cohort of men who persistently are exposed to these heavy metals.Ĭitation: Wu H, Wang M, Raman JD, McDonald AC (2021) Association between urinary arsenic, blood cadmium, blood lead, and blood mercury levels and serum prostate-specific antigen in a population-based cohort of men in the United States.
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In addition, there was no association found when stratified by black and white race. After adjusting for age, race/ethnicity, body mass index, smoking, and education, there was no association found between any of the heavy metal levels and elevated PSA for the total population. Men with an elevated PSA had statistically significantly higher levels of blood cadmium and blood lead compared to men with a normal PSA (p-values ≤ 0.02), with black men having higher levels. Logistic regression analyses with survey sample weights were used to examine the association between heavy metal levels and elevated PSA for the total population and stratified by black and white race, after adjusting for confounders. Prostate cancer-free men, aged ≥40 years, were identified from the 2003–2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
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We examined whether total urinary arsenic, urinary dimethylarsonic acid, blood cadmium, blood lead, and total blood mercury levels are associated with elevated PSA among presumably healthy U.S. The relationship of these exposures with serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA), a marker used for prostate cancer screening, is unknown. Exposures to heavy metals have been linked to prostate cancer risk.