We assumed that the amount of NSAIDs dispensed is a good approximation of actual consumption, which is likely true for chronic users with repeated refills.
But we can derive them in relation to patterns of actual consumption and the use of the average poverty line for developing countries of $2/day.
Our inability to adjust for actual use of tobacco, alcohol consumption, and over-the-counter purchase of low-dose ibuprofen and aspirin may have obscured a preventive effect of NSAID use against oral cancer.
For the actual consumption at the output, we take the real part of Eq. (13) and avoid the imaginary parts.
These data provide a proxy for consumption rather than actual consumption.
This information is very limited for the detection of the actual consumption traces of individual consumers, and hence, we believe that the proposed scheme can be applied in a wide range of practical deployment scenarios.
Actual consumption levels for the 50th, 90th, and 95th percentiles of aspartame are estimated as being at most 4.8, 10.4, and 13.3 mg/kg body wt/day (4).
Surprisingly, diets high in fresh fruits and vegetables resulted in greater DEHP exposure than actual consumption patterns for adolescents and women of reproductive age.
