Thanks to a $1.2 million Federal Government grant, the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute’s Dr Patrick Lelliott and Dr Anna Watson will lead an international team to investigate how environmental exposure to plastics may contribute to cardiovascular disease and how this risk can be better understood and reduced.
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