Erratum: Need for individual-based evaluation to determine the association between humidifier disinfectants and health injuries. [PDF]
Ann Occup Environ Med, 2021 [This corrects the article e21 in vol. 33.].
Kim HC, Kim H, Mun EC, Lee Y, Park S.
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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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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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Assessment of agonistic and antagonistic properties of humidifier disinfectants to the estrogenic and androgenic receptors by transactivation assay. [PDF]
Toxicol Res, 2022 Lee H, Park J, Park K.
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Journal of Toxicological Sciences, 2016 Exposure to humidifier disinfectants was identified in 2011 as the potential cause of an outbreak of lung disease in Korea. It is estimated that over 8 million people have been exposed to humidifier disinfectants-chemicals added to the water used in ...
G W Hwang, Kyu-Hyuck Chung
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Exposure characteristics of familial cases of lung injury associated with the use of humidifier disinfectants. [PDF]
Environ Health, 2014 BackgroundThis study describes 17 families with 38 lung injury patients (14 males, 24 females; 22 preschool-age children less than six years of age and 16 individuals of 13–50 years) who used disinfectant added to humidifiers in the home.MethodsClinical ...
Park D +12 more
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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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Association between humidifier disinfectant use duration and lung cancer development in Korea [PDF]
Epidemiology and HealthOBJECTIVES This study was conducted to assess the association between the duration of humidifier disinfectant use and lung cancer development. METHODS We analyzed data from 3,605 applicants registered for compensation from the Korean government due to ...
Sungchan Kang +10 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 HealthOBJECTIVES 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 +10 more
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Integrated evidence supports a causal association between PHMG-P exposure and pneumonitis [PDF]
Epidemiology and HealthPolyhexamethylene guanidine phosphate (PHMG-P) is a guanidine-based disinfectant previously used in household humidifiers in Korea. This study evaluated whether PHMG-P exposure is causally linked to pneumonitis by integrating epidemiological ...
Yong Joo Park +8 more
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