Research
Hormonal
Higher urinary bisphenol A (uBPA) concentrations are associated with increased odds of diabetes, obesity, elevated waist circumference, and hypertension in humans.
Reduce exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA) by avoiding heating food in plastic containers, choosing BPA-free products, and limiting canned food consumption, as higher urinary BPA levels are linked to higher risks of diabetes, obesity, and hypertension.
GoodSupportsHIGH confidence
Evidence for a positive association between uBPA concentrations and diabetes, overweight, obesity, elevated waist circumference (WC), CVD and hypertension was found in 7/8, 2/7, 6/7, 5/5, 4/5 and 2/3 of the cross-sectional studies, respectively.
Why this rating
Meta-analysis of 33 observational studies with large sample sizes, though predominantly cross-sectional limits causal inference.
Source
Bisphenol A and the risk of cardiometabolic disorders: a systematic review with meta-analysis of the epidemiological evidence
Fanny Rancière et al. · Environmental Health · 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12940-015-0036-5
Meta-analysis · 33 studiesCited 290×
Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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