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Environmental Illness (2):
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Environmental Illness
Irish medical journal (103)4 2010
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There is now a well publicised increase in cases of sofa dermatitis since 2007. These have been linked to allergic contact sensitization to dimethlylfumarate, a novel contact allergen. We report on a case associated with a two year history of a treatment resistant dermatitis.
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PMID: 20486318
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Klinicheskaia meditsina (88)1 2010
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The aim of this work was to study effect of fosinopril combined with propranolol or cytomack on ecoendotoxicosis, size of myocardial infarction (MI), left ventricular (LV) systolic function, and clinical picture of stationary phase MI in patients working in environmentally unfriendly conditions. 42...
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PMID: 20369615
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Przeglad lekarski (67)1 2010
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Results of researches from last years have interdirected previously proposed recommendations concerning allergy prevention, based mainly on observational studies. For allergy prevention there is suggested now to breast feed at least 4-6 months and to limit passive tobacco smoking. Knowledge progress...
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PMID: 20509573
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I explore community access-primarily the lack thereof-for persons with disabling environmental sensitivities (ESs). Respondents with chemical and electrical sensitivities described their level of access to common community resources that most persons take for granted, including communities of worshi...
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PMID: 20390633
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Total amount of natural and antropogenous mercury in ambient air of Blagoveshensk city, living area air, industrial spaces air exceeds the background values, but does not influence the level of bronchopulmonary diseases, gastro-intestinal and gall pathways disorders in children, adolescents and adul...
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PMID: 20480819
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We should now single out optics, power engineering, researches, wildlife conservation, etc. The specific physicochemical properties of nanomaterials suggest that they can be toxic to humans. That is the reason that society should be keenly aware of what the nanomaterials are. Despite the fact that n...
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PMID: 20496486
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The scientific rationale for preventive measures based on sanitary-and-epidemiological surveillance on environmental objects is considered. The sizes of functional zones and space for various types of communal services and amenities and leisure are regulated to ensure good urban vital activities. Mu...
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PMID: 20496488
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One hundred and eighteen subjects living at various distances from the carrier rocket fall places underwent cytomorphological studies of the upper airways (rhinocytogram) and buccal epithelium. The findings indicate that the dwellers of the settlements of Ulytausky District have chronic hypertrophic...
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PMID: 20496490
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Under the conditions of hot and mountain-continental climate, the morbidity rates in the inhabitants were estimated to be significantly lower than those in young men who had not been acclimatized or adapted to living conditions and in non-acclimatized men. A role of individual physical environmental...
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PMID: 20491267
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The paper gives data on the nature of snow cover pollution in the urbanized areas in relation to the remoteness from the basic sources of ambient air pollution. The total snow content of carcinogens has been estimated.
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PMID: 20491263
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The concentrations of stable organic chlorine pollutants (SOCP) in the breast milk of women living in Irkutsk, Baikalsk, and the settlement of Kachug are lower than those in the increased SOCP-burdened areas of the Irkutsk Region (the town of Usolye-Sibirskoye, settlements on the shore of the Baikal...
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PMID: 20373711
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The carcinogenic risk to the Moscow population exposed to ambient air pollutants, such as benzene and formaldehyde, discharged by motor transport has been assessed. The ways of lowering the negative impact of motor transport on the urban environment are considered.
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PMID: 20373707
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The established tense environmental situation in Krasnouralsk, Sverdlovsk Region, presents a serious threat to human health. Development of a medium-term municipal environmental program for a Krasnouralsk urban district provides solutions of environmental problems. The human health status and carcin...
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PMID: 20373708
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To evaluate the cytogenetic and cytotoxic effects of a set of pollutions in the town of Koryazhma, the investigators made a complete karyological analysis (cytogenetic, apoptotic, and indirect proliferation parameters) of buccal and nasal epithelial exfoliative cells in two groups of old school age...
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PMID: 20373705
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The subjects of studies were laboratory animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, albino rats, albino mice) and a chemical substance (agidol 10, a alkyl phenol derivative). The purpose of the study was to provide a rationale for the maximum allowable concentration (MAC) of agidol 10 in the atmosphere of inhabi...
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PMID: 20373725
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The paper presents the general principles and procedure of the development and implementation of measures to decrease and prevent environmental pollution with persistent toxic substances (PTS) in the Russian Arctic and, accordingly, to reduce a risk of the deleterious effects of PTS on human health....
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PMID: 20491265
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Researchers have found, in studies carried out over several years, that many passengers and crew, following their recent flights in commercial jet aeroplanes, have become unwell, with a range of symptoms in common. This condition, which has not yet been officially recognised, is called Aerotoxic Syn...
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PMID: 19891417
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Clinical Medicine (9)4 2009
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We can all respond to make the difference. And the time to do so is now....
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PMID: 19728499
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Swiss medical weekly : official journal of the Swiss Society of Infectious Diseases, the Swiss Society of Internal Medicine, the Swiss Society of Pneumology (139)17-18 2009
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We use the issue of air pollution related health as an educational example for EBPH....
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PMID: 19156552
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Problemy sotsial'noi gigieny, zdravookhraneniia i istorii meditsiny / NII sotsial'noi gigieny, ekonomiki i upravleniia zdravookhraneniem im. N.A. Semashko RAMN ; AO "Assotsiatsiia 'Meditsinskaia literatura'." ()3 2009
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The article presents data on the levels of reproductive system diseases morbidity among fertile age women residing in the areas adjacent to the Tadzhik aluminum plant in Surkhandaryinskaya oblast of Uzbekistan. The relationship of the reproductive system diseases morbidity and the degree of atmosphe...
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PMID: 19708592
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Problemy sotsial'noi gigieny, zdravookhraneniia i istorii meditsiny / NII sotsial'noi gigieny, ekonomiki i upravleniia zdravookhraneniem im. N.A. Semashko RAMN ; AO "Assotsiatsiia 'Meditsinskaia literatura'." ()2 2009
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The social hygienic characteristics of deteriorated living environment in Surkhan-Daria area around the Tadjikistan aluminum factory are described. The harmful chemical substances negatively impacting local population health especially women of fertile age are indicated. The structure of morbidity o...
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PMID: 19548472
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Complex hygienic evaluation of observation zone territory in long-standing running an object with radiation jeopardy revealed that radionuclides and heavy metals content of soil, surface water basins and ambient air is the same as background levels in reference territories. The authors point out pos...
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PMID: 19445052
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The authors studied connection between exposure to fluorine compounds and fluorides excretion. Average fluorine content of urine and hair samples of children exceeds the reference values. Ambient air and soil pollution with fluorine was proved to be an important health risk factor for urban children...
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PMID: 19278188
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Schweizer Monatsschrift fur Zahnmedizin = Revue mensuelle suisse d'odonto-stomatologie = Rivista mensile svizzera di odontologia e stomatologia / SSO (119)2 2009
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Practical experience with unconventional treatments suggests that the paradigm used by conventional medical science to assess the impact of dental materials must be broadened. First, several diagnostic methods commonly employed to evaluate allergies and toxicological burdens are described and subjec...
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PMID: 19306599
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The aerogenic risk to health was assessed in the population living in an area under the influence of an petroleum refinery in order to define the ambient pollution hazard, to identify the leading risk factors and their sources for further development of the most effective managerial decisions to red...
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PMID: 19799232
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Human health risk was screened at the stage of supporting the choice of a building site for a petroleum refinery. Based on the calculated exposure levels, the risk to the Buguruslan population was characterized under different conditions: without consideration for the impact of the projected enterpr...
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PMID: 19799235
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To provide the safety of the population and environment with the occurrence of man-caused catastrophes due their increase is now an urgent problem. Toxic hazard coefficients were calculated for hydrogen sulfide in the settlements located in a possible chemical pollution area in the Orenburg gas-chem...
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PMID: 19802955
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The paper gives the data of studies establishing the regularities of formation of the composition, levels, and space-time features of pollution of ambient air, soil, and drinking water in the risk of their influence of the health status of the children residing in the urbanized and rural areas. The...
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PMID: 19802949
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Chemical air pollution of the residential and industrial areas of a town was evaluated. There was a significant relationship of the average daily actuating concentrations of priority substances to the air pollution of the study areas, the average annual concentrations of ambient air pollutants to th...
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PMID: 19802954
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The study determined priority chemicals in the ambient air and air of enclosed spaces of the town's administrative districts, by taking into account the formation of a community health risk. The industrial town's areas were ranked by the hazard of carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic effects caused by...
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PMID: 19799234
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The paper describes the ecological and hygienic significance of the physical factors of the urban dwelling environment: the macroclimate of a residential area, the microclimate within the residential and public buildings, the ionic ozone regimen of premises, an electromagnetic load on the population...
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PMID: 20000084
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Under the conditions of hot and mountain-continental climate, the morbidity rates were estimated to be significantly lower than those in young men who had not been acclimatized or adapted to living conditions and in non-acclimatized men. A role of individual physical environmental factors (temperatu...
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PMID: 20000099
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A full-scale toxicological experiment established a complex of biochemical, clinical, and immunological parameters for the diagnosis of preconditions upon exposure to hydrocarbons, which was tested on children from two towns differing in the degree of ambient air pollution owing to hydrocarbons.
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PMID: 20000097
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Analysis of archival records on the activity of diurnal plane-tables from the region's weather stations revealed local radioactive fall-out in the near-Baikal areas from the nuclear weapon tests carried out at the Semipalatinsk testing site. Examination of mortality rates in the settlements exposed...
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PMID: 20000091
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The cytological state of nasal and oral mucosae in the children and adolescents living in the town of Koryazhma was evaluated at the schools located differently from the Kotlas pulp-and-paper mill (PPM). All the Kozyazhma children under examination were found to have an increased epithelocytic alter...
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PMID: 19642548
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The ambient atmosphere of Moscow is appraised as unbeneficial to the health of the population, that of children and adolescents in particular. Motor transport is a powerful source of the ambient air pollution of Moscow. The average annual level of atmospheric pollution in 2008 is considered to be mo...
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PMID: 20143496
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The occurring climate changes have a considerable impact on human health. The higher frequency of different natural disasters, including flood and typhoons, deteriorates the epidemiological situation. Evidence is provided for the importance of climate warming as a risk factor for a number of communi...
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PMID: 20000092
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A complex of chemical, physical, and biological factors of varying intensity influences man under the dwelling environmental conditions. Modern man spends as high as 80-90% of the day time under the conditions of the closed spaces of the urbanized habitat and is constantly exposed to physical factor...
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PMID: 20000093
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The paper gives an algorithm, a procedure for calculation of aircraft noise, and its spread modeling. The performed investigations have provided guidelines that will become the first Russian official guiding document for assessing a risk from aviation noise to human health.
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PMID: 20050061
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The paper considers the problem in the comparative assessment of a carcinogenic risk and harm from ionizing irradiation and some chemical ambient air pollutants (formaldehyde, suspended matter) to the population's health in the Kolsky peninsula. The findings suggest that a chemical risk factor has a...
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PMID: 20050066
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The paper presents data on morbidity in the population living in the suburban area of an industrial center (the city of Ryazan), by taking into account gross ambient emission from the stationary sources, ambient pollution levels, and a sanitary assessment of the quality of life. Differences were fou...
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PMID: 19642558
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The degree and nature of surface air pollution with man-made chemicals were studied in Krivoy Rog in 1996 to 2005. The priorities of pollutants were established in the area with different forms of technogenic emissions and residential areas. Immunological parameters were studied in healthy neonates...
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PMID: 19642549
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Environmental pollution has a negative impact on the health status of the population, on that of children in particular. In-depth developments of primary morbidity of childhood diseases of respiratory organs as a system that is mostly exposed to ambient air pollution have indicated that respiratory...
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PMID: 20143492
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The paper deals with the morbidity- and mortality-associated problem arising from the processes occurring in the transition period of development of new Russia. It points to the leading role of health care service in this process. The authors show the real health status of the working population, th...
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PMID: 20143495
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Among the pollutants of the biosphere, heavy metals present the greatest hazard since they show a high stability and toxicity and are able to migrate in the water ecosystems and to accumulate in the bottom sediments and hydrocoles, by impairing the stability of hydrobiocenoses. Chemical monitoring o...
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PMID: 20143493
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By analyzing their own studies and the results of other studies by other investigators, the authors provide evidence that the noninvasive evaluation of the nasal and oral cytological status is one of techniques for assessing the health status and reflects the organism's state varying with environmen...
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PMID: 20143494
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The paper considers the problem while studying various physical factors of the environment. It presents prospects for further investigations of the influence of physical factors on human health and the quality of the environment. The paper also gives a detailed description of advances and promising...
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PMID: 20050057
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The paper analyzes the results of microbiological, immunological, and cytological studies of the upper airway in apparently healthy individuals exposed to toxic agents. The upper airway endoenvironmental changes have been found at the prenosological level, which may lead to the development of clinic...
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PMID: 19642550
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Social Science and Medicine (67)11 2008
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We draw on open-ended questionnaire data drawn from a large, random sample of UK Gulf veterans, collected in 1996 and 1997. Whilst there is already some literature focussing on coherent personal narratives of some veterans and campaigners, we suggest that they are preceded by much more fragmentary,...
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PMID: 18829146
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Social Science and Medicine (67)11 2008
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We performed a population-based case-control study conducted in Germany, with 257 cases and 769 controls. ETS exposure was assessed from spouse/partner, working history and childhood. The odds ratio (OR) for ETS exposure (binary) in all individuals was 1.2 (95% CI 0.77-1.8), controlled for active sm...
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PMID: 18379814
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Pediatrics (122)3 2008
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Recognition of the full health and economic cost of air pollution to Chinese children and the benefits of pollution reduction should spur increased use of renewable energy, energy efficiency, and clean-fuel vehicles. This is a necessary investment for China's future....
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PMID: 18762533
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NeuroImage (41)4 2008
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We used functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to test whether this network is also involved in the induction of unpleasant perceptions by sham mobile phone radiation in subjectively electrosensitive patients. This design enabled us to completely dissociate the unpleasant subjective perception...
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PMID: 18499479
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Toxicological Sciences (104)1 2008
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Damp building-related illnesses (DBRI) include a myriad of respiratory, immunologic, and neurologic symptoms that are sometimes etiologically linked to aberrant indoor growth of the toxic black mold, Stachybotrys chartarum. Although supportive evidence for such linkages is limited, there are excitin...
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PMID: 18007011
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BACKGROUND: The prevalence of allergic diseases has grown in Finland, similarly to many other western countries. Although the origin of allergy remains unresolved, increasing body of evidence indicates that the modern man living in urban built environment is deprived from environmental protective fa...
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PMID: 18445181
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Respiratory disorders are common problems for adults and children in North America and generally represent the outcome of gene-environment interactions. Some problems are considered genetic in origin, such as cystic fibrosis, and others are considered environmental in origin, such as respiratory inf...
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PMID: 18424347
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Climate change is unequivocal. The fourth assessment report of the Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change has recently projected that global average surface temperature will increase by 1.1 to 6.4 degrees C by 2100. Anthropogenic warming during the twenty-first century would be much greater than t...
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PMID: 18613900
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Journal of Hepatology (48)4 2008
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Progression of chronic hepatitis is highly variable among individuals, as the result of several host, viral and environmental factors. The latter have been extensively investigated in order to ameliorate hepatitis C outcome, particularly in difficult-to-treat patients. Over the last decade, several...
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PMID: 18279998
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