Article ; Online: Implications of nonlinearity, confounding, and interactions for estimating exposure concentration-response functions in quantitative risk analysis.
2020 Volume 187, Page(s) 109638
Abstract: ... whether reducing exposure would reduce risk. We discuss statistical options for controlling for such threats, and ... pyroptosis of cells. Realistic dose-response modeling and risk analysis must confront the reality ... in biological exposure concentration-response (C-R) functions. These range from ultrasensitive molecular ...
| Abstract | Recent advances in understanding of biological mechanisms and adverse outcome pathways for many exposure-related diseases show that certain common mechanisms involve thresholds and nonlinearities in biological exposure concentration-response (C-R) functions. These range from ultrasensitive molecular switches in signaling pathways, to assembly and activation of inflammasomes, to rupture of lysosomes and pyroptosis of cells. Realistic dose-response modeling and risk analysis must confront the reality of nonlinear C-R functions. This paper reviews several challenges for traditional statistical regression modeling of C-R functions with thresholds and nonlinearities, together with methods for overcoming them. Statistically significantly positive exposure-response regression coefficients can arise from many non-causal sources such as model specification errors, incompletely controlled confounding, exposure estimation errors, attribution of interactions to factors, associations among explanatory variables, or coincident historical trends. If so, the unadjusted regression coefficients do not necessarily predict how or whether reducing exposure would reduce risk. We discuss statistical options for controlling for such threats, and advocate causal Bayesian networks and dynamic simulation models as potentially valuable complements to nonparametric regression modeling for assessing causally interpretable nonlinear C-R functions and understanding how time patterns of exposures affect risk. We conclude that these approaches are promising for extending the great advances made in statistical C-R modeling methods in recent decades to clarify how to design regulations that are more causally effective in protecting human health. |
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| MeSH term(s) | Air Pollution ; Bayes Theorem ; Environmental Exposure/analysis ; Humans ; Regression Analysis ; Risk |
| Keywords | covid19 |
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2020-05-19 |
| Publishing country | Netherlands |
| Document type | Journal Article ; Review |
| ZDB-ID | 205699-9 |
| ISSN | 1096-0953 ; 0013-9351 |
| ISSN (online) | 1096-0953 |
| ISSN | 0013-9351 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.envres.2020.109638 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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