Repressive coping and alexithymia in idiopathic environmental intolerance. [PDF]
Environ Health Prev Med, 2010 To examine if the non-expression of negative emotions (i.e., repressive coping) and differences in the ability to process and regulate emotions (i.e., alexithymia) is associated with idiopathic environmental intolerance (IEI).The study included participants who had previously participated in a general population-based study and reported symptoms of ...
Skovbjerg S +4 more
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Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance: A Treatment Model [PDF]
Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 2020 Idiopathic environmental intolerance (IEI) refers to a health condition characterized by the presence of multiple symptoms in different organ systems in response to a variety of environmental cues, such as chemical exposures, electromagnetic radiation, infrasound from windmill farms, (parts of) buildings, foods etc.
Omer Van den Bergh +2 more
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Attention to bodily sensations and symptom perception in individuals with idiopathic environmental intolerance. [PDF]
Environ Health Prev Med, 2010 Idiopathic environmental intolerance (IEI) is characterized by non-specific symptoms attributed to exposure to environmental odours or chemicals at levels below those known to induce adverse health effects. A clarification of whether psychological processes involved in sensory perceptions are associated with IEI would add to our understanding of this ...
Skovbjerg S +4 more
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Clinical Characteristics of Disability in Patients with Indoor Air–Related Environmental Intolerance [PDF]
Safety and Health at Work, 2019 Background: Chronic nonspecific symptoms attributed to indoor nonindustrial work environments are common and may cause disability, but the medical nature of this disability is unclear.
Aki Vuokko +10 more
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The Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance Symptom Inventory: Development, Evaluation, and Application [PDF]
Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, 2009 To develop, evaluate, and apply a questionnaire-based instrument for investigation of specific symptoms in idiopathic environmental intolerance (IEI), called the Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance Symptom Inventory (IEISI).Participants with IEI to chemicals responded to 82 candidate symptoms and to three subscales of the Quick Environmental Exposure ...
Maria J E, Andersson +4 more
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Neuropsychological and positron emission tomography correlates in idiopathic environmental intolerances [PDF]
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2007 It has been hypothesized that people with subjective hypersensitivity to chemicals may indeed suffer from neuronal damage due to widely distributed environmental toxins and that such deficits of diagnostic importance can be demonstrated with the help of functional neuroimaging even in single cases.
Susanne, Bornschein +10 more
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Perspectives on multisensory perception disruption in idiopathic environmental intolerance: a systematic review [PDF]
International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 2018 Multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) also known as idiopathic environmental intolerance/illness (IEI) encompasses a cohort of subjective symptoms characterized by susceptibility to a wide spectrum of environmental compounds, causing symptoms involving various organs and a decrease in quality of life.
Viziano A. +4 more
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Prevalence and risk factors for multiple chemical sensitivity in Australia [PDF]
Preventive Medicine Reports, 2019 The author found that the prevalence of diagnosed multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) in Australia was 6.5%. No mention is made about the role of exposure to metals. Exposure to metallic elements has been associated with MCS.
Paolo D. Pigatto, Gianpaolo Guzzi
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Electrohypersensitivity: what is belief and what is known? [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthElectrohypersensitivity (EHS), or idiopathic environmental intolerance attributed to electromagnetic fields (IEI-EMF), is a condition with fluid and transient symptoms associated to exposure to non-ionizing radiation by people claiming to suffer from it.
Frank de Vocht +3 more
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Transcriptomic Profiling of Adult-Onset Asthma Related to Damp and Moldy Buildings and Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance. [PDF]
Int J Mol Sci, 2021 A subset of adult-onset asthma patients attribute their symptoms to damp and moldy buildings. Symptoms of idiopathic environmental intolerance (IEI) may resemble asthma and these two entities overlap.
Suojalehto H +9 more
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