In 2018, over 350,000 excess heart disease deaths were linked to phthalates. More research is needed to fully understand the chemicals' effects.

Researchers estimate that exposure to phthalates contributes to 13 percent of all heart disease deaths in people between 55 ...

Phthalates, which are found in cosmetics, food packaging and other common household plastics, are linked to early death from ...

Key takeaways DEHP, a plastic-softening chemical, may have contributed to 356,000 global heart disease deaths in 2018 NYU researchers identify Asia ...

Common household chemical found linked to heart disease deaths - India leads in deaths linked to toxic plastic chemicals ...

Our findings add to the vast body of evidence that these chemicals present a tremendous danger to human health,” said Sara Hyman, lead study author.

A global study estimates that exposure to the plastic additive DEHP caused over 356,000 heart disease deaths in 2018, with ...

A new global study has found that daily exposure to a chemical used in many plastic products may be linked to more than ...

Researchers at NYU Langone Health discovered that daily exposure to chemicals in common household items could have been a ...

A growing body of research suggests that plastics (such as the takeout container kind) and chemicals used to create them, ...

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline This commonly used plastic chemical caused 350,000 heart ...

A kind of chemical used to make everyday plastic products has been linked to a major percentage of global deaths from heart ...