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Evaluation report on the causal association between humidifier disinfectants and lung injury [PDF]

Epidemiology and Health, 2016
OBJECTIVES As of November 2011, the Korean government recalled and banned humidifier disinfectants (HDs) from the market, because four case-control studies and one retrospective epidemiological study proved the association between HDs and lung injury of ...
Mina Ha, Soon Young Lee, Seung-sik Hwang, Hyesook Park, Seungsoo Sheen, Hae Kwan Cheong, Bo Youl Choi   +6 more
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Risk of non-cancer respiratory diseases attributed to humidifier disinfectant exposure in Koreans: age-period-cohort and differences-in-difference analyses [PDF]

Epidemiology and Health
OBJECTIVES Humidifier disinfectants (HDs) were sold in Korea from 1994 until their recall in 2011. We examined the incidence patterns of 8 respiratory diseases before and after the HD recall and estimated the attributable risk in the Korean population ...
Jaiyong Kim, Kyoung Sook Jeong, Seungyeon Heo, Younghee Kim, Jungyun Lim, Sol Yu, Suejin Kim, Sun-Kyoung Shin, Hae-Kwan Cheong, Mina Ha, Epidemiology Expert Committee for Reviewing the Epidemiological Correlations between Humidifier Disinfectant Exposure and Health Effects   +10 more
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Health Effects Associated With Humidifier Disinfectant Use: A Systematic Review for Exploration. [PDF]

J Korean Med Sci, 2022
It has been 10 years since the outbreak of lung disease caused by humidifier disinfectants in Korea, but the health effects have not yet been summarized. Therefore, this study aims to systematically examine the health effects of humidifier disinfectants that have been discovered so far.All literature with humidifier disinfectants and their ...
Song JH, Ahn J, Park MY, Park J, Lee YM, Myong JP, Koo JW, Lee J.   +7 more
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Comparison of maternal and neonatal survival exposed to humidifier disinfectants during perinatal periods: a case-series study [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2023
A humidifier disinfectant (HD) has been prohibited by the government due to its serious effects on the human body. Several studies on the relationship between HD and lung diseases have been performed independently on children and adults.
Jang Hoon Lee, Joon Sung Joh, Seoheui Choi   +2 more
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COVID-19 in a Patient Previously Exposed to Toxic Disinfectant from a Humidifier [PDF]

Journal of Acute Care Surgery, 2022
In August, 2011, the Korean Public Health Surveillance declared an outbreak of pulmonary disease due to the inhalation of humidifier disinfectants (HDs), which led to approximately 20,000 deaths.
Seok Hwa Youn, Sung Soo Hong, Sun Young Baek, Younghwan Kim   +3 more
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Humidifier Disinfectant–associated Children’s Interstitial Lung Disease

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2013
Beginning in 2006, epidemics of a fatal lung injury of unknown cause in children were observed in Korea every spring. A recent study demonstrated that this type of children's interstitial lung disease (chILD) is associated with humidifier disinfectant use.To determine the clinical characteristics of this type of chILD and to assess whether the ...
Kyung Won Kim, Kangmo Ahn, Hyeon Jong Yang, Sooyoung Lee, June Dong Park, Woo Kyung Kim, Jin-Tack Kim, Hyun Hee Kim, Yeong-Ho Rha, Yong Mean Park, Myung Hyun Sohn, Jae‐Won Oh, Hae Ran Lee, Dae Hyun Lim, Ji Tae Choung, Man Yong Han, Eun Lee, Hyung Young Kim, Ju‐Hee Seo, Byoung‐Ju Kim, Young Ah Cho, Kyung‐Hyun Do, Sun A. Kim, Se Jin Jang, Moo-Song Lee, Hwa Jung Kim, Geun-Yong Kwon, Ji-Hyuk Park, Jin Gwack, Seung-Ki Youn, Jun-Wook Kwon, Byung-Yool Jun, Bok Yang Pyun, Soo‐Jong Hong   +33 more
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An analysis of a humidifier disinfectant case from a toxicological perspective [PDF]

Environmental Health and Toxicology, 2016
An analysis of patients and fatalities due to exposure to polyhexamethylene guanidine (PHMG) shows that PHMG causes mainly lung diseases such as pulmonary fibrosis. However, no research on the other organs has been conducted on this matter yet. So, an in-depth discussion on toxicological techniques is needed to determine whether or not PHMG is toxic to
Kwangsik Park
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Inhalation Lung Injury Associated with Humidifier Disinfectants in Adults. [PDF]

J Korean Med Sci, 2016
We recently established a novel disease entity presented as progressive respiratory failure associated with the inhalation of humidifier disinfectants. In April 2011, we encountered a series of peripartum patients with complaints of respiratory distress of unknown etiology, which was an uncommon phenomenon.
Huh JW, Hong SB, Do KH, Koo HJ, Jang SJ, Lee MS, Paek D, Park DU, Lim CM, Koh Y.   +9 more
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Mitochondria disease due to humidifier disinfectants: diagnostic criteria and its evidences. [PDF]

Environ Anal Health Toxicol, 2020
Humidifier disinfectant damages caused by the misuse of humidifier disinfects, such as polyhexamethylene guanidine (PHMG), resulted in chemical disasters in South Korea in 2011. About four million people were exposed to humidifier disinfectants (HDs) in the 17 years between 1994 and 2011.
Leem JH, Kim HC.
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Frequency of Humidifier and Humidifier Disinfectant Usage in Gyeonggi Provine [PDF]

Environmental Health and Toxicology, 2012
This study is a cross-sectional study to investigate the frequency of humidifier and humidifier disinfectant usage in the general population.A questionnaire was applied to 94 subjects (46 male, 48 female) from the general population of Gyeonggi Province. The questionnaire consisted of 3 scales (general characteristics, 5 items about humidifier usage, 5
Byoung‐Hak Jeon, Young Joon Park
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