| Environmental Health Issues Cynthia F. Bearer Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Rainbow Babies and
Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio Abstract
Several factors alter an individual's risk for an environmentally related illness. A major determinant is the age of the individual. The toxicodynamic processes that determine exposure, absorption, metabolism, excretion, and tissue vulnerability are all age related. This paper discusses each of these processes and their variability with age, and illustrates these points with examples of environmentally related disease cases. -- Environ Health Perspect 103(Suppl 6) :7-12 (1995) Key words: developmental stages, environmentally related diseases, developmental toxicology, routes of exposure, exposure, absorption, metabolism, excretion, preconception
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