Exploring Socio-Demographic Factors Affecting Psychological Symptoms in Humidifier Disinfectant Survivors. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021 This study aimed to compare the psychological symptoms of humidifier disinfectant survivors to the general population and explore socio-demographic factors influencing survivors’ psychological symptoms. A one-way Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA) and a series of two-way MANCOVA were conducted with a sample of 228 humidifier disinfectant ...
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Humidifier disinfectant-associated specific diseases should be called together as "humidifier disinfectant syndrome". [PDF]
Environ Health Toxicol, 2017 Humidifier disinfectant (HD) damage was terrible chemical damage caused by household goods that happened in only South Korea, but still very little is known in HD damage. Up to now, previous research tried to focus on interstitial fibrosis on terminal bronchioles and alveoli because it is a specific finding, compared with other diseases.
Leem JH, Lee JH.
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Characteristics of Exposure to Chloromethylisothiazolinone (CMIT) and Methylisothiazolinone (MIT) among Humidifier Disinfectant-Associated Lung Injury (HDLI) Patients in South Korea [PDF]
Molecules, 2020 This study aimed to quantify both chloromethylisothiazolinone (CMIT) and methylisothiazolinone (MIT) dissolved in different product brands and to characterize the exposure to these chemicals among humidifier disinfectant-associated lung injury (HDLI ...
Dong-Uk Park +11 more
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Characteristics of the Molecular Weight of Polyhexamethylene Guanidine (PHMG) Used as a Household Humidifier Disinfectant [PDF]
Molecules, 2021 (1) Background: Household humidifier disinfectant (HD) brands containing polyhexamethylene guanidine (PHMG) have been found to cause the most HD-associated lung injuries (HDLIs) in the Republic of Korea.
Dong-Uk Park +8 more
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Kathon Induces Fibrotic Inflammation in Lungs: The First Animal Study Revealing a Causal Relationship between Humidifier Disinfectant Exposure and Eosinophil and Th2-Mediated Fibrosis Induction [PDF]
Molecules, 2020 Currently available toxicity data on humidifier disinfectants are primarily limited to polyhexamethylene guanidine phosphate-induced lung fibrosis.
Mi-Kyung Song, Dong Im Kim, Kyuhong Lee
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Humidifier disinfectant disaster: what is known and what needs to be clarified [PDF]
Environmental Health and Toxicology, 2016 Objectives After the initial investigations by the Korea Centers for Disease Control in 2011, over 1000 suspicious cases of humidifier disinfectant (HD) victims were subsequently reported by 2015, and numbers are still increasing dramatically in 2016 in ...
Sungkyoon Kim, Domyung Paek
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Exposures to humidifier disinfectant and various health conditions in Korean based on personal exposure assessment data of claimants for compensation [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2023 Background Humidifier disinfectants (HDs) were commonly used household chemicals to prevent microbial growth in a humidifier water tank in South Korea.
Myeongjin Hong +8 more
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Multi-layer relationships between psychological symptoms and life adaptation among humidifier disinfectant survivors [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 In April 2011, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the results of an epidemiological investigation that an unknown cause of lung disease that occurred throughout Korea was caused by humidifier disinfectants.
Min Joo Lee +4 more
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Humidifier disinfectants, unfinished stories [PDF]
Environmental Health and Toxicology, 2016 Once released into the air, humidifier disinfectants became tiny nano-size particles, and resulted in chemical bronchoalveolitis. Families had lost their most beloved members, and even some of them became broken.
Yeyong Choi, Domyung Paek
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Integrative multi‐omics approach for mechanism of humidifier disinfectant‐associated lung injury [PDF]
Clinical and Translational Medicine, 2021 Jeong‐Hyun Kim +14 more
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