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. 1995 Sep;103(Suppl 6):7–12. doi: 10.1289/ehp.95103s67

How are children different from adults?

C F Bearer 1
PMCID: PMC1518896  PMID: 8549494

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.

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