INTRODUCTION Sugar and sorbite are well known to be convenient and suitable materials for chemiluminescence(CL) as well as electron spin resonance(ESR) dosimetry, in particular for retrospective dose assessment in an emergency and/or accident situation, mainly because of their close tissue-equivalence. In practice, however, the dose-CL response of those materials are not always shown to be sati...

Most arsenic cancer risk assessments have been based solely on epidemiological studies to characterize the dose-response relationship for arsenic-associated cancer and to perform risk calculations. However, current epidemiological evidence is too inconsistent and fraught with uncertainty regarding arsenic exposure to provide reliable estimates. This makes it hard to draw a firm conclusion about...

Statistical evaluation of the dose-response function in lead epidemiology is rarely attempted. Economic evaluation of health benefits of lead reduction usually assumes a linear dose-response function, regardless of the outcome measure used. We reanalyzed a previously published study, an international pooled data set combining data from seven prospective lead studies examining contemporaneous bl...

OBJECTIVES The dose-response relationship for hand-transmitted vibration has been investigated extensively in temperate environments. Since the clinical features of hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS) differ between the temperate and tropical environment, we conducted this study to investigate the dose-response relationship of HAVS in a tropical environment. METHODS A total of 173 male constru...

background: hepatitis b infection is a major public health problem worldwide. dental students who are frequently in contact with body fluids like blood and saliva are still at high risk for hbv exposure. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of hbv vaccine and personal factors associated with serologic evidence of the immune response. methods: a descriptive-cross sectional stu...

Exhaled nitric oxide (eNO) is an easily measured marker of airway inflammation. This study was undertaken to evaluate the usefulness of serial eNO in investigating the dose-response relationship for inhaled beclomethasone (BDP), and to compare eNO with other markers of airway inflammation. Following withdrawal of inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) therapy, 65 patients entered a double-blind, parallel...