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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-4-9
pubmed:abstractText
Benchmark dose (BMD) analysis is used to determine levels of exposure to environmental contaminants associated with increased public health risk. In this study we used a benchmark approach to evaluate the risks associated with prenatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). We evaluated for intellectual impairment a cohort of children whose prenatal PCB exposure had been assessed from biologic specimens. We calculated BMDs and lower-bound confidence limits (BMDLs) for four end points using four sets of risk criteria. BMDLs were estimated using three different statistical methodologies. The BMDs and BMDLs were remarkably consistent across the four end points for each set of risk criteria, but differed substantially for the different risk criteria. The proportion of the sample considered at risk ranged from 9.8% for the least protective criteria to 74.1% for the most protective. Two methodologies, likelihood ratio and bootstrapping, generated generally similar BMDLs. BMD analysis provides a straightforward, reliable method for evaluating levels of exposure associated with increased public health risk. In the analyses performed in this study, the number of individuals considered at risk depended more on the risk criterion selected than on the outcome assessed.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0091-6765
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
110
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
393-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
A benchmark dose analysis of prenatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202, USA. jjacobso@sun.science.wayne.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.