Health effects of a mixture of indoor air volatile organics, their ozone oxidation products, and stress

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 113, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1542-1548

  Fiedler, Nancy ^a,b   Laumbach, Robert ^a,b   Kelly McNeil, Kathie ^a,b   Lioy, Paul ^a,b   Fan, Zhi Hua ^a,b   Zhang, Junfeng ^a,b,c   Ottenweller, John ^d   Ohman Strickland, Pamela ^c   Kipen, Howard ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Building related illness; Lung function; Neurobehavioral; Ozone; Stress; Symptoms; Volatile organic compounds

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE DERIVATIVE; CARBOXYLIC ACID; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; OZONE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ADULT; AIR CONDITIONING; AMBIENT AIR; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BUILDING; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MENTAL STRESS; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OXIDATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; SALIVARY GLAND; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ANXIETY; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OZONE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SPEECH; STRESS; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 27744522066     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.8132     Document Type: Article

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