Epidemiological investigations

The primary purpose of this chapter is to provide public health officials, physicians, toxicologists, and other interested individuals and groups with an overall perspective on the toxicology of methyl parathion. It contains descriptions and evaluations of toxicological studies and epidemiological investigations and provides conclusions, where possible, on the relevance of toxicity and toxicokinetic data to public health. 

Psychopharmaco-epidemiology investigation in China in 2002 showed that the first six antipsychotic drugs used for schizophrenia were clozapine, risperidone,... 

Human studies (including estimations of occupational and environmental exposure, epidemiological investigations, post-marketing surveillance for medicines, cosmetics and household and agricultural products, and the ethical and properly controlled use of human volunteers) [6]. 

Efforts to incorporate SNP studies into environmental/occupational epidemiology investigations have focused on examining hypothesis-driven associations between exposures and specific polymorphisms. Most common human diseases such as asthma,... 

Yang 1990) yielded no evidence of carcinogenic effect. Nevertheless, epidemiological investigations of the incidence of cancer in workers who use bromomethane would be helpful in assessing the cancer risk to humans who could be exposed to low levels of bromomethane in air near some waste sites. 

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