Indoor environmental exposures and symptoms.
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Indoor environmental exposures and symptoms.
The label "sick building syndrome" is often used to imply the absence of a physiologic basis for symptoms in the built environment. Although building-related illness is widely recognized but considered rare, several well-studied mechanisms may be responsible for many symptoms in buildings. These mechanisms do not explain why some individuals perceive disability. Until researchers distinguish ph...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0091-6765,1552-9924
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.02110s4663