Invited Commentary: Sensitivities to Chemicals--Context and Implications
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Invited commentary: sensitivities to chemicals--context and implications.
The ground-breaking manuscript on chemical sensitivity symptoms by Kreutzer et al. (1) brings some long overdue rigor to the epidemiology of what has come to be called multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS). It also provides an opportunity to highlight work important to public health in an overlooked field, that of medically unexplained somatic symptoms. MCS along with other syndromes associated w...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0002-9262,1476-6256
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009911