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Acute pulmonary function impairment in school staff working in a "sick building": a pilot study.

Author(s) : DAHLQVIST M., ALEXANDERSSON R.

Type of article: Article

Summary

Energy-efficiency procedures in the form of the insulating of buildings and reducing ventilation synchronized with an increase in complaints from occupants about discomfort and health effects. Respiratory symptoms and pulmonary function in 17 subjects in a Swedish school with mechanical ventilation have been determined before and after a working week once each in winter and summer and once again in winter 1 year later. A principal component analysis of the variables: job category, gender, smoking habits, and symptoms of breathlessness, coughing, mucous membranes, headache and/or sleepiness identified three fractors accounting for 77% of the total variability. Symptoms from lower airways were related to the pulmonary function impairment. The acute transient pulmonary function deterioration suggests the existence of deleterious effects in a moist environment with growth of microorganisms or other unmeasured exposures quantitatively related to the microorganisms.

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  • Original title: Acute pulmonary function impairment in school staff working in a "sick building": a pilot study.
  • Record ID : 1994-3772
  • Languages: English
  • Source: Indoor Environ. - vol. 2 - n. 3
  • Publication date: 1993/05
  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.

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