Fig. 6From: Diagnosis, monitoring and prevention of exposure-related non-communicable diseases in the living and working environment: DiMoPEx-project is designed to determine the impacts of environmental exposure on human healthHuman biomonitoring: how a specific biomarker can serve as specific aim in a study design. The “meet-in-the-middle” principle to show how biomarkers can be used prospectively to contribute to human health risk assessment and retrospectively in population-based studies to identify molecules for suitability as intermediate biomarkers of “‘early effect”effect’ to link exposure biomarkers with disease endpointsBack to article page