Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, National Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
J Aging Health. 2013 Mar;25(2):243-73. doi: 10.1177/0898264312468032. Epub 2012 Dec 6.
To explore age-related behavior differences between older and younger adults, and to review how older adult activity patterns are considered in evaluating the potential risk of exposure to environmental pollutants.
Activity pattern data and their use in risk assessments were analyzed using the U.S. EPA Exposure Factors Handbook (EFH), U.S. EPA Consolidated Human Activity Pattern Database (CHAD), and peer-reviewed literature describing human health risk assessments.
The characterization by age of some factors likely to impact older adults' exposures remains limited. We demonstrate that age-related behavior trends vary between younger and older adults, and these differences are rarely explicitly considered in environmental health risk assessment for older adults.
Incorporating older adult exposure factors into risk assessments may be challenging because of data gaps and difficulty in defining and appropriately binning older adults. Additional data related to older adult exposure factors are warranted for evaluating risk among this susceptible population.
探讨老年人和年轻人之间与年龄相关的行为差异，并综述如何考虑老年人的活动模式以评估其接触环境污染物的潜在风险。
使用美国环保署暴露因素手册（EFH）、美国环保署综合人类活动模式数据库（CHAD）以及描述人类健康风险评估的同行评议文献，分析了活动模式数据及其在风险评估中的应用。
某些可能影响老年人暴露的因素按年龄进行特征描述仍有限。我们表明，一些与年龄相关的行为趋势在年轻人和老年人之间存在差异，但在针对老年人的环境健康风险评估中，这些差异很少被明确考虑。
由于数据缺口以及难以界定和适当分类老年人，将老年暴露因素纳入风险评估可能具有挑战性。需要与老年人暴露因素相关的更多数据来评估这一易感人群的风险。
