Common Food Contaminant May Increase Risk of Osteoporosis
May 9/Stockholm/foodconsumer.org -- Exposure to a common contaminant in food may boost the risk of osteoporosis, according to a new study released on March 2, 2012, online in the journal Bone.
The study led by Annette Engström of Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, and colleagues found that high exposure to dietary cadmium (greater than 13 micrograms per day) was associated with 32% increased risk for osteoporosis and 31% increased risk for any first incident fracture, compared to the low exposure ( less than 13 micrograms per day)