Human exposure and health risk of alpha-, beta-, gamma- and delta-hexachlorocyclohexane (HCHs) in Tianjin, China.
Chemosphere
; 60(6): 753-61, 2005 Aug.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-15939453
ABSTRACT
The dynamic exposures to HCHs of individuals born between the years 1913 and 1993 in Tianjin have been simulated by connecting a fugacity model (IV) with a multimedia exposure model. Ingestion is the most important pathway for human beings to take up HCHs, and concentrations in the human body correlate with body weight changes. Accumulations of HCHs were derived assuming that the degradation in human body behaved linearly. The health risk of exposure to HCHs was measured using cancer risk and loss of life expectancy (LLE), and LLE was modified from its original definition to incorporate a dynamic calculation that takes variances in exposure into account. Monte-Carlo simulations were run to analyze the uncertainties of the model.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Health context:
1_ASSA2030
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2_ODS3
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Hexachlorocyclohexane
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Pesticide Residues
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Food Contamination
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Environmental Pollutants
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Insecticides
Type of study:
Etiology_studies
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Health_economic_evaluation
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
En
Journal:
Chemosphere
Year:
2005
Document type:
Article