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- Title
Human Interindividual Variability--A Major Source of Uncertainty in Assessing Risks for Noncancer Health Effects.
- Authors
Hattis, Dale; Silver, Ken
- Abstract
For noncancer effects, the degree of human interindividual variability plays a central role in determining the risk that can be expected at low exposures. This discussion reviews available data on observations of interindividual variability in (a) breathing rates, based on observations in British coal miners; (b) systemic pharmacokinetic parameters, based on studies of a number of drugs; (c) susceptibility to neurological effects from fetal exposure to methyl mercury, based on observations of the incidence of effects in relation to hair mercury levels; and (d) chronic lung function changes in relation to long-term exposure to cigarette smoke. The quantitative ranges of predictions that follow from uncertainties in estimates of interindividual variability in susceptibility are illustrated.
- Subjects
RISK assessment; INDUSTRIAL contamination; MERCURY; RESPIRATION; PHARMACOKINETICS; SMOKING
- Publication
Risk Analysis: An International Journal, 1994, Vol 14, Issue 4, p421
- ISSN
0272-4332
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1539-6924.1994.tb00260.x