Thread by @Mangan150

Concentrations of lead (the metal) in blood are a risk factor for heart disease and death on a par with, or greater than, smoking.

How often do you hear that? If you have CAD, does your doc check your blood lead level, or just prescribe a statin?

"Our findings suggest that, of 2·3 million deaths every year in the USA, about 400,000 are attributable to lead exposure, an estimate that is about ten times larger than the current one."

~18% of all U.S. deaths due to lead exposure. Most are due to CVD.
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Men in the top third of bone lead level - which by definition one third of men are - had *8x* the risk of death from heart disease.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19738141/

To top it off, EDTA chelation therapy, an intervention that the mainstream writes off as quackery, and which removes heavy metals from the body, works to reduce CV events. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The Use of N-Acetylcysteine as a Chelator for Metal Toxicity

"Metals removed in these human studies included mercury, lead, gold, and arsenic."
link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…