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PFAS exposure before birth could put your teen at risk for high blood pressure, study finds
Prenatal exposure to a class of dangerous, widely used chemicals could be linked to your child having high blood pressure as a teen.
1 cause of death in the United States.The largest effects were shown in adolescents who were exposed to a mixture of different PFAS chemicals during pregnancy compared with those who were not, which implies that there may be a synergistic impact on cardiometabolic health, Marsit said. "These include maintaining a healthy weight, eating a balanced diet, reducing salt intake, and encouraging physical activity," he added.But ultimately, an individual cannot solve PFAS exposure alone, Zhang said. New data shows the synthetic compounds could also be linked to a teen's risk of developing cardiovascular disease later in life, according to the study published Thursday in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
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