CINCINNATI, Ohio. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - We’ve all heard warnings about BPA ; a chemical found in plastics and personal care products. Studies show that nearly 90% of Americans have detectable levels of BPA in their bodies. Now, new research reveals this everyday exposure is tied to changes in the heart’s electrical system.

You can find it in water bottles, food can linings, cash register receipts, eye glass lenses, even baby bottles and makeup. These are environmental phenols: Chemicals in products we touch every day.

“Phenols are a wide variety of chemicals. The best-known example is BPA,” Hong-Sheng Wang, PhD, professor of pharmacology at the University of Cincinnati told Ivanhoe.

University of Cincinnati researchers studied 600 people. Urine tests and EKGs found higher exposure w

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