Humidifier Disinfectant Consumption and Humidifier Disinfectant-Associated Lung Injury in South Korea: A Nationwide Population-Based Study
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Humidifier disinfectant-associated specific diseases should be called together as “humidifier disinfectant syndrome”
Humidifier disinfectant (HD) damage was terrible chemical damage caused by household goods that happened in only South Korea, but still very little is known in HD damage. Up to now, previous research tried to focus on interstitial fibrosis on terminal bronchioles and alveoli because it is a specific finding, compared with other diseases. To figure out whole effects from HDs, much epidemiologic ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
سال: 2021
ISSN: 1660-4601
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18116136