Short-term changes in respiratory biomarkers after swimming in a chlorinated pool

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1538-1544

  Font Ribera, Laia ^a,b,c   Kogevinas, Manolis ^a,b,d,e   Zock, Jan Paul ^a,b,d   Gómez, Federico P ^f,g   Barreiro, Esther ^b,c,g   Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J ^a,b,d   Fernandez, Pilar ^h   Lourencetti, Carolina ^h   Pérez Olabarría, Maitane ^b   Bustamante, Mariona ^a,b,c   Marcos, Ricard ⁱ   Grimalt, Joan O ^h   Villanueva, Cristina M ^a,b,d  

^a CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^d CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^e NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

^f INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^g INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^h INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

ⁱ UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Clara cell secretory protein; Disinfection by products; Exhaled breath condensate; Fractional exhaled nitric oxide; Respiratory health; Swimming; Swimming pools; Trihalomethanes

Indexed keywords

8 ISOPROSTANE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BROMODICHLOROMETHANE; BROMOFORM; CHLORINE; CHLOROFORM; CLARA CELL PROTEIN; DIBROMOCHLOROMETHANE; DISINFECTANT AGENT; GAMMA INTERFERON; GAMMA INTERFERON INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12P70; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 8; NITRIC OXIDE; RANTES; SURFACTANT PROTEIN D; TRIHALOMETHANE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOPY; CHLORINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; EXPIRED AIR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG INJURY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; SWIMMING POOL;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BREATH TESTS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DINOPROST; DISINFECTANTS; FEMALE; HALOGENATION; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PNEUMONIA; PULMONARY SURFACTANT-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN D; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SWIMMING POOLS; UTEROGLOBIN; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 78149348846     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1001961     Document Type: Article

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