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Another toxic aldehyde acrolein is present in a variety of foods and is detected in high levels in cigarette smoke and overheated oils (reviewed in [ 18]).
Acrolein is present in tobacco smoke; therefore, NHANES participants who recently smoked tobacco were distinguished from non-tobacco users when serum cotinine (a nicotine-specific biomarker, measured in a serum sample obtained at the same time as the spot urine sample) exceeded 10 ng/mL (Pirkle et al. 1996).
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The distribution of 1999 annual ambient acrolein concentrations is presented in Table 2. Annual ambient acrolein concentrations exceeded the current RfC for acrolein in > 75%, 90%, and 50% of all U.S. census tracts, census tracts within urban counties, and census tracts within rural counties, respectively.
Although acrolein is ubiquitously present in the environment, acrolein exposure through inhalation of cigarette smoke or smoke from burning of plastic or wood is generally considered to compose a large proportion of total human exposure.
The estimated relative excess response in lung function parameters from baseline for the various ambient acrolein concentrations are presented in Table 3.
Acetaldehyde is classified as a Group 2B carcinogen, while Acrolein is classified as a toxic chemical.
The combustion product acrolein is a key mediator of pulmonary edema in victims of smoke inhalation injury.
Acrolein is unstable and some of it reacts further to produce either carbon oxides, or, acrylonitrile.
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