Environmental Exposure, Biomonitoring and Exposure Assessment

Environmental exposure plays an important role in the development of diseases. However, individuals are exposed to complex mixtures of substances (e.g., chemicals, pollution, and diet) that change throughout a person’s life. Therefore, measuring these different types of exposure and investigating th...

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description Environmental exposure plays an important role in the development of diseases. However, individuals are exposed to complex mixtures of substances (e.g., chemicals, pollution, and diet) that change throughout a person’s life. Therefore, measuring these different types of exposure and investigating their association with disease is complicated, though necessary, as it forms the basis of individual risk assessment of a variety of types of environmental exposure. Biomonitoring, which is the quantitative measurement of environmental chemicals/pollutants in the human body, is used to evaluate an individual’s exposure. The appropriate utilization of biomonitoring provides information on occupational as well as non-occupational exposures. When the chemicals of interest are unknown, untargeted approaches, such as metabolomics, are used to generate semiquantitative measurements of internal exposure. These are complemented by environmental monitoring—performing external exposure measurements from lifestyle and unavoidable exposure which are mapped and quantified by wearable sensors and environmental samples. These techniques help identify unintentional and unexpected forms of exposure, which are difficult to establish using more conventional techniques such as exposure questionnaires. Once obtained, exposure data are compared to animal/human data to determine an individual’s risk of disease and are used to evaluate the effectiveness of policy actions and detect emerging contaminants. This Special Issue contains research at the intersection of environmental exposure, biomonitoring, and the assessment of health risks.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1526602025-02-20T12:52:12Z Environmental Exposure, Biomonitoring and Exposure Assessment van Gerwen, Maaike Vermeulen, Roel Petrick, Lauren exposure risk assessment biomonitoring epidemiology diseases thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MN Surgery Environmental exposure plays an important role in the development of diseases. However, individuals are exposed to complex mixtures of substances (e.g., chemicals, pollution, and diet) that change throughout a person’s life. Therefore, measuring these different types of exposure and investigating their association with disease is complicated, though necessary, as it forms the basis of individual risk assessment of a variety of types of environmental exposure. Biomonitoring, which is the quantitative measurement of environmental chemicals/pollutants in the human body, is used to evaluate an individual’s exposure. The appropriate utilization of biomonitoring provides information on occupational as well as non-occupational exposures. When the chemicals of interest are unknown, untargeted approaches, such as metabolomics, are used to generate semiquantitative measurements of internal exposure. These are complemented by environmental monitoring—performing external exposure measurements from lifestyle and unavoidable exposure which are mapped and quantified by wearable sensors and environmental samples. These techniques help identify unintentional and unexpected forms of exposure, which are difficult to establish using more conventional techniques such as exposure questionnaires. Once obtained, exposure data are compared to animal/human data to determine an individual’s risk of disease and are used to evaluate the effectiveness of policy actions and detect emerging contaminants. This Special Issue contains research at the intersection of environmental exposure, biomonitoring, and the assessment of health risks. 2025-02-20T12:52:09Z 2025-02-20T12:52:09Z 2024 book ONIX_20250220_9783725817436_24 9783725817436 9783725817443 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/152660 eng application/octet-stream Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/topic/9858 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-7258-1744-3 10.3390/books978-3-7258-1744-3 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783725817436 9783725817443 374 Basel open access
spellingShingle exposure
risk assessment
biomonitoring
epidemiology
diseases
thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing
thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MN Surgery
Environmental Exposure, Biomonitoring and Exposure Assessment
title Environmental Exposure, Biomonitoring and Exposure Assessment
title_full Environmental Exposure, Biomonitoring and Exposure Assessment
title_fullStr Environmental Exposure, Biomonitoring and Exposure Assessment
title_full_unstemmed Environmental Exposure, Biomonitoring and Exposure Assessment
title_short Environmental Exposure, Biomonitoring and Exposure Assessment
title_sort environmental exposure biomonitoring and exposure assessment
topic exposure
risk assessment
biomonitoring
epidemiology
diseases
thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing
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topic_facet exposure
risk assessment
biomonitoring
epidemiology
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thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing
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