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Epidemiology of the sick building syndrome

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 1994
The sick building syndrome (SBS) has been the subject of serious scientific inquiry only in the past 10 years. It is commonly accepted to represent eye, nose, and throat irritation; headaches, lethargy, difficulty concentrating, and sometimes dizziness; nausea, chest tightness; and other symptoms.
Michael Hodgson
exaly   +3 more sources

Sick building syndrome and its impacts on health, well-being and productivity: A systematic literature review

Indoor and Built Environment, 2023
People’s well-being, health and productivity in indoor environments are crucial areas of investigation, particularly concerning sick building syndrome (SBS).
Iasmin Lourenço Niza, Midhiã Pequena de Souza, Inaiele Mendes da Luz, E. E. Broday   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Autoimmune autonomic nervous system imbalance and conditions: Chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, silicone breast implants, COVID and post-COVID syndrome, sick building syndrome, post-orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, autoimmune diseases and autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants.

Autoimmunity Reviews, 2022
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia, silicone breast implants syndrome (SBIs), COVID and post-COVID syndrome (PCS), sick building syndrome (SBS), post-orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), autoimmune diseases and autoimmune/inflammatory ...
A. Malkova, Y. Shoenfeld
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

A Review of the Role of Indoor Fungi in Sick Building Syndrome

International journal of medical laboratory, 2023
Sick building syndrome (SBS) is a group of non-specific symptoms associated with the built environment, including mucosal symptoms in the eyes, nose, throat, and skin, and general symptoms such as headache and fatigue.
M. T. Sarvtin
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sick Building Syndrome

Chulalongkorn Medical Journal, 2005
Dr. Hodgson summarizes what is known about human symptoms and discomfort in the built environment, and formulates several critical hypotheses that show striking parallels to the questions arising from discussions of the IEI/MCS syndrome.
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Thermal sensation, sick building syndrome symptoms, and physiological responses of occupants in environments with vertical air temperature differences.

Journal of Thermal Biology, 2022
Vertical air temperature differences (VTDs) can have important influences on thermal comfort and the evaluation of air distributions. The air distributions might create either positive or negative VTDs.
Yu-Xin Wu, Shengtao Zhang, Hong Liu, Yong Cheng, Chun-Hui Liao   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

How renovation activities may jeopardise indoor air quality: accounting for short and long-term symptoms of sick building syndrome in educational buildings

Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 2022
The study discussed how building renovation activities jeopardised Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and caused several symptoms of Sick Building Syndrome (SBS). This postulation was investigated on a case study-renovated university building with different types ...
Walaa S. E. Ismaeel, Fatma O. Alamoudy, R. Sameh   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Patients and the sick building syndrome

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 1994
Physicians encounter patients who have complaints related to indoor environments with increasing frequency. Physicians must distinguish between approaches to identify disease in individual patients, characterization of group effects, and analysis of environmental exposure characteristics.
M, Hodgson, E, Storey
openaire   +2 more sources

A high environmental composite quality factor score was associated with the risk of sick building syndrome among adults in northeast China.

Journal of Environmental Management, 2022
OBJECTIVES Epidemiological evidence regarding the association between the combination of indoor and outdoor neighborhood pollution and sick building syndrome (SBS) among adults is limited and inconsistent.
Yu He, Shen Zhang, X. Wei, Shufei Shang, Ye-Wei Wang, Ruochen Zhang, Jia Guo, Mingli Sun, Ye Li, Ya-Nan Ma   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Sick Building Syndrome

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1992
The term "sick building syndrome" (SBS) has been used for several years to describe a number of mostly unspecific complaints of some occupants of air-conditioned buildings. Based on the literature, a definition of the SBS is given and some results of larger SBS studies carried out in Germany, Denmark and the United Kingdom are described.
openaire   +4 more sources