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Higher drinking-water PFOA exposure is linked to increased all-cause mortality and CVD mortality among 51,289 men with prostate cancer in New Jersey, with aHRs up to 1.12.
- Why it matters: Men with prostate cancer may be uniquely susceptible to PFAS due to comorbidities and treatment, but cause-specific mortality links from drinking-water PFAS exposure are unclear.
- What they did: The study estimated PFOA, PFOS, and PFNA concentrations for 566 community water systems using a two-phase XGBoost model trained on 26,161 PFAS monitoring results, then fit Cox models for mortality with time-varying covariates.
- The result: Higher PFNA exposure was suggestively associated with all-cause and PCa mortality, and applying five-year lags strengthened associations, including PFOA aHRQ5vsQ1 1.15 and PFOS aHRQ5vsQ1 1.16 for all-cause mortality.
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