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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Evidence integration on health damage for humidifier disinfectant exposure and legal presumption of causation [PDF]
Epidemiology and Health, 2023 OBJECTIVES Inhalation exposure to humidifier disinfectants has resulted to various types of health damages in Korea. To determine the epidemiological correlation necessary for presuming the legal causation, we aimed to develop a method to synthesize the ...
Mina Ha +10 more
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Erratum: Need for individual-based evaluation to determine the association between humidifier disinfectants and health injuries. [PDF]
Ann Occup Environ Med, 2021 Kim HC, Kim H, Mun EC, Lee Y, Park S.
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Mental health impact on a humidifier disinfectant disaster victim: a case report [PDF]
Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2020 In Korea, the cause of lung disease of unknown origin was identified as humidifier disinfectants in November 2011. In February 2017, the 'Special Act on Remedy for Damage Caused by Humidifier Disinfectants' was promulgated. Even though emotional and mental injuries caused by humidifier disinfectants have been reported, the focus of the special act has ...
Yesung Lee +5 more
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The past, present and future of humidifier disinfectant-associated interstitial lung diseases in children [PDF]
Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics, 2020 Exposure to environmental factors can cause interstitial lung diseases (ILDs); however, such types of ILDs are rare. From 2007 to 2011, an ILD epidemic occurred in South Korea owing to inhalational exposure to toxic chemicals in humidifier disinfectants (
Eun Lee, So-Yeon Lee, Soo-Jong Hong
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Toxicological evidence integration to confirm the biological plausibility of the association between humidifier disinfectant exposure and respiratory diseases using the AEP-AOP framework [PDF]
Epidemiology and HealthOBJECTIVES Exposure to humidifier disinfectants has been linked to respiratory diseases, including interstitial lung disease, asthma, and pneumonia. Consequently, numerous toxicological studies have explored respiratory damage as both a necessary and ...
Ha Ryong Kim +10 more
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Humidifier disinfectant, sodium dichloroisocyanurate (NaDCC): assessment of respiratory effects to protect workers’ health [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 In South Korea, it has been found that biocides used to control and eliminate harmful organisms are used as humidifier disinfectants and cause lung disease in users.
DongSeok Seo, Yong-Hoon Lee, JiMin Jo
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Toxic hepatitis after exposure to humidifier disinfectant: A case series report. [PDF]
Environ Anal Health Toxicol, 2023 Health damage from humidifier disinfectants is an unprecedented environmental health disaster. Humidifier disinfectants were used broadly in Korea from 1994 to 2011. Most studies have focused on respiratory problems because of the exposure route and primary respiratory symptoms. This overlooks the previous research results that humidifier disinfectants
Kim HD, Kim HC, Leem JH.
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Exploring Socio-Demographic Factors Affecting Psychological Symptoms in Humidifier Disinfectant Survivors [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and 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 ...
Hyeyun Ko +6 more
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Humidifier Disinfectants Are a Cause of Lung Injury among Adults in South Korea: A Community-Based Case-Control Study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 An outbreak of lung injury among South Korean adults was examined in a hospital-based case-control study, and the suspected cause was exposure to humidifier disinfectant (HD).
Ji-Hyuk Park +12 more
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