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ReviewEnvironmental health : a global access science source2009

Applicability of non-invasively collected matrices for human biomonitoring.

Roel Smolders, Karl-Werner Schramm, Marc Nickmilder, Greet Schoeters

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Review in Environmental health : a global access science source, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  15. Biomonitoring chronic lead exposure among battery manufacturing workers in Tunisia.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2019
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  18. Blood-borne biomarkers and bioindicators for linking exposure to health effects in environmental health science.Journal of toxicology and environmental health. Part B, Critical reviews · 2016
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  20. Arsenic and Other Metals' Presence in Biomarkers of Cambodians in Arsenic Contaminated Areas.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Roel SmoldersVITO, Environmental Toxicology, Boeretang 200, 2400 Mol, Belgium. roel.smolders@vito.be
Karl-Werner Schramm
Marc Nickmilder
Greet Schoeters

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With its inclusion under Action 3 in the Environment and Health Action Plan 2004-2010 of the European Commission, human biomonitoring is currently receiving an increasing amount of attention from the scientific community as a tool to better quantify human exposure to, and health effects of, environmental stressors. Despite the policy support, however, there are still several issues that restrict the routine application of human biomonitoring data in environmental health impact assessment. One of the main issues is the obvious need to routinely collect human samples for large-scale surveys. Particularly the collection of invasive samples from susceptible populations may suffer from ethical and practical limitations. Children, pregnant women, elderly, or chronically-ill people are among those that would benefit the most from non-invasive, repeated or routine sampling. Therefore, the use of non-invasively collected matrices for human biomonitoring should be promoted as an ethically appropriate, cost-efficient and toxicologically relevant alternative for many biomarkers that are currently determined in invasively collected matrices. This review illustrates that several non-invasively collected matrices are widely used that can be an valuable addition to, or alternative for, invasively collected matrices such as peripheral blood sampling. Moreover, a well-informed choice of matrix can provide an added value for human biomonitoring, as different non-invasively collected matrices can offer opportunities to study additional aspects of exposure to and effects from environmental contaminants, such as repeated sampling, historical overview of exposure, mother-child transfer of substances, or monitoring of substances with short biological half-lives.

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BiomarkersEnvironmental ExposureEnvironmental HealthEnvironmental MonitoringEnvironmental PollutantsEuropean UnionHumansBiomarkersEnvironmental Pollutants

Identifiers

PMID19272133
PMCPMC2660315

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