Development and validation of models to predict personal ventilation rate for air pollution research.

ABSTRACT: Air pollution intake represents the amount of pollution inhaled into the body and may be calculated by multiplying an individual's ventilation rate with the concentration of pollutant present in their breathing zone. Ventilation rate is difficult to measure directly, and methods for estimating ventilation rate (and intake) are lacking. Therefore, the goal of this work was to examine how well linear models using heart rate and other basic physiologic data can predict personal ventilation rate. We measured personal ventilation and heart rate among a panel of subjects (n = 36) while they conducted a series of specified routine tasks of varying exertion levels. From these data, 136 candidate models were identified using a series of variable transformation and selection algorithms. A second "fr

SUBMITTER: Good N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6401349 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature