期刊
BIOMETRICS
卷 57, 期 3, 页码 698-706出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2001.00698.x
关键词
confidence limits; environmental epidemiology; exposure standards; model dependence; multiple regression
资金
- NIEHS NIH HHS [ES06112, ES09797] Funding Source: Medline
A threshold for dose-dependent toxicity is crucial for standards setting but may not be possible to specify from empirical studies. Crump (1984) instead proposed calculating the lower statistical confidence bound of the benchmark dose, which he defined as the dose that causes a small excess risk. This concept has several advantages and has been adopted by regulatory agencies for establishing safe exposure limits for toxic substances such as mercury. We have examined the validity of this method as applied to an epidemiological study of continuous response data associated with mercury exposure. For models that are linear in the parameters, we derived an approximative expression for the lower confidence bound of the benchmark dose. We find that the benchmark calculations are highly dependent on the choice of the dose effect function and the definition of the benchmark dose. We therefore recommend that several sets of biologically relevant default settings be used to illustrate the effect on the benchmark results and to stimulate research that will guide an a priori choice of proper default settings.
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