Application of Novel Method to Measure Endogenous VOCs in Exhale...

Courtesy Recent Science Inventory records from the EPA  Thu, 10/29/2009 - 09:17

Polar volatile organic compounds (PVOCs) such as aldehydes, ketones, and alcohols are byproducts of normal human metabolism and are present in exhaled breath and blood.

Environmental exposures, individual activities, and disease states can perturb normal metabolic processes and can be expressed as a change in the patterns of the PVOCs.

Under controlled or monitored conditions it may be possible to directly attribute changes to external sources.

Results of these controlled exposures could then be used to assess unknown exposures in population based studies.

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