Estimating nickel exposure in respirable dust from nickel in inhalable dust.
Aerosol
Exposure assessment
Inhalable dust
Nickel
Regression analysis
Respirable dust
Journal
International journal of hygiene and environmental health
ISSN: 1618-131X
Titre abrégé: Int J Hyg Environ Health
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 100898843
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
09 2021
09 2021
Historique:
received:
08
03
2021
revised:
01
09
2021
accepted:
01
09
2021
pubmed:
10
9
2021
medline:
9
11
2021
entrez:
9
9
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The conversion of dust components is of high importance for retrospective evaluations of exposure levels, of occupational diseases or the time trend of occupational dust exposure. For this purpose, possibilities to convert nickel concentrations from inhalable to respirable dust are discussed in this study. Therefore, 551 parallel measurements of nickel concentrations in inhalable and respirable dust fractions were extracted from the exposure database MEGA (maintained at the Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance) and investigated by linear regression analysis of ln-transformed concentrations. Inhalable dust is the most important predictor variable, showing an adjusted coefficient of determination (adj. R
Identifiants
pubmed: 34500213
pii: S1438-4639(21)00153-X
doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2021.113838
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Air Pollutants, Occupational
0
Dust
0
Nickel
7OV03QG267
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
113838Informations de copyright
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