Two-Year Responses of Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability to First Occupational Lead Exposure

Hypertension. 2021 May 5;77(5):1775-1786. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.120.16545. Epub 2021 Mar 29.

¹ From the Research Unit Hypertension and Cardiovascular Epidemiology, KU Leuven Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leuven, Belgium (Y.-L.Y., L.T., J.D.M., D.-M.W., Z.-Y.Z.).
² Department of Cardiology, Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China (Y.-L.Y.).
³ Center for Endocrine Metabolism and Immune Diseases, Beijing Luhe Hospital and Key Laboratory of Diabetes Prevention and Research, Capital Medical University, China (C.-G.Y.).
⁴ Department of Cardiology, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China (W.-Y.Y.).
⁵ Department of Cardiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China (F.-F.W.).
⁶ Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium (T.S.N., H.A.R.).
⁷ Centre for Molecular and Vascular Biology, KU Leuven Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leuven, Belgium (P.V.).
⁸ Research Institute Alliance for the Promotion of Preventive Medicine (J.A.S.).
⁹ Biomedical Science Group, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leuven, Belgium (J.A.S.).

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

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Keywords: autonomic nervous system; heart rate; lead; nerve conduction; occupational exposure.