Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Lead is known as an environmental toxic pollutant and hormonal regulatory confounder associated with obesity. Recent China scientific report shows that blood lead level (BLL) is closely related with body mass index. Therefore, we investigated the association between the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and blood lead levels in healthy general population without hypertension, dyslipidemia, and diabetes.Methods: We assessed the socio-demographi...