A Case of Sick Building Syndrome in a Japanese Office Worker
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A case of sick building syndrome in a Japanese office worker.
The adverse health effects caused by indoor air pollution are termed "sick building syndrome". We report such a patient whose symptoms appeared in the workplace. A 36-year-old female office worker developed nausea and headache during working hours in a refurbished office. After eight months of seeking help at other clinics or hospitals without improvement, she was referred to our hospital. At t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Industrial Health
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0019-8366,1880-8026
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.43.341