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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Nov 6.
Published in final edited form as: Hum Ecol Risk Assess. 2019 Nov 6;25:1–24. doi: 10.1080/10807039.2019.1615828

Table 1.

IPCS preliminary distributions for human toxicokinetic and toxicodynamic variability.

Parameter Median estimate across
data sets of variation
between 95th and 50th
percentile individuals
95th percentile estimate
across data sets of
variation between 95th
and 50th percentile
individuals
Source
Toxicokinetic (TK) Variability ~2-fold ~4.5-fold Based on variability in area under the curve from oral exposures in 37 data sets (Hattis and Lynch 2007a).
Toxicodynamic (TD) Variability ~2.5-fold ~10-fold Based on observations of systemic, non-immune-mediated, continuous physiological parameter changes or quantal biological response in relation to internal measures of systemic exposures in 34 data sets (Hattis and Lynch 2007a).
Combined TK and TD ~3.5-fold ~14-fold Based on Monte Carlo simulation combining the TK and TD distributions, assuming they are independent and lognormal.

Adapted from IPCS Tables 4.4 and A4.1 (WHO 2014)