Asian Americans have significantly higher exposure than other ethnic or racial groups to PFAS, a family of thousands of synthetic chemicals also known as 'toxic forever' chemicals, Mount Sinai-led researchers report.
Asian Americans have significantly higher exposure than other ethnic or racial groups to PFAS, a family of thousands of synthetic chemicals also known as"toxic forever" chemicals, Mount Sinai-led researchers report.
The scientists estimated a person's total exposure burden to PFAS and accounted for the exposure heterogeneity of different groups of people that could expose them to different sets of PFAS.racial groups This is the first time that researchers accounted for complex exposure sources of different groups of people to calculate a person's exposure burden to PFAS. To achieve this, they used advanced psychometric and data science methods called mixture item response theory. The researchers analyzed human biomonitoring data from the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a representative sample of the U.S. population.
"These disparities are hidden if we use a one-size-fits-all approach to quantifying everyone's exposure burden. In order to advance precision, we need to optimally and equitably quantify exposure burden to PFAS mixtures, to ensure that our exposure burden metric used are fair and informative for all people."
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