Yoga as an effective lifestyle intervention for Bhopal methyl isocyanate gas leakage catastrophe victims
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Exposure and response to methyl isocyanate: results of a community based survey in Bhopal.
In the two weeks immediately after the Bhopal disaster a community based survey was carried out in a series of eight exposed and two non-exposed clusters of households. The primary concern was the effect of the gas (subsequently identified as methyl isocyanate) on the eyes of the victims but data were also sought on respiratory status and the first symptoms of the exposure. No case of blindness...
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1Department of Quality of Life, Spirituality, and Coping, Center of Integrative Medicine, Faculty of Healthy, Witten/Herdecke University, 58313 Witten, Germany 2Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA 3Department of Internal and Complementary Medicine, Immanuel Hospital Berlin and Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology & Health...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Yoga
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0973-6131
DOI: 10.4103/0973-6131.154072