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Lipid Adjustment In The Analysis Of Environmental Contaminants And Human Health Risks, Enrique Schisterman, Brian Whitcomb, Germaine Buck Louis, Thomas Louis
Lipid Adjustment In The Analysis Of Environmental Contaminants And Human Health Risks, Enrique Schisterman, Brian Whitcomb, Germaine Buck Louis, Thomas Louis
Brian W. Whitcomb
The literature on exposure to lipophilic agents such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) is conflicting, posing challenges for the interpretation of potential human health risks. Laboratory variation in quantifying PCBs may account for some of the conflicting study results. For example, for quantification purposes, blood is often used as a proxy for adipose tissue, which makes it necessary to model serum lipids when assessing health risks of PCBs. Using a simulation study, we evaluated four statistical models (unadjusted, standardized, adjusted, and two-stage) for the analysis of PCB exposure, serum lipids, and health outcome risk (breast cancer). We applied eight candidate true …