Assessment of inter-individual, geographic, and seasonal variability in estimated human exposure to fine particles.

ABSTRACT: Health effects associated with ambient fine particle (PM(2.5)) exposure are typically estimated based on concentration-response (C-R) functions using area-wide concentration as an exposure surrogate. Persons 65 and older are particularly susceptible to adverse effects from PM(2.5) exposure. Using a stochastic microenvironmental simulation model, distributions of daily PM(2.5) exposures were estimated based on ambient concentration, air exchange rate, penetration factor, deposition rate, indoor emission sources, census data, and activity diary data, and compared for selected regions and seasons. Even though the selected subpopulation spends an average of over 20 h per day indoors, the ratio of daily average estimated exposure to ambient concentration (E(a)/C) is approximately 0.5. The daily

SUBMITTER: Jiao W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3658126 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature