Hydrocarbons in indoor air and their health-effects

摘要: Summary Concentrations of harmful airborne substances are much higher in indoor air than outdoors. Furniture, cleansing agents, paints, solvents, carpets and floors release numerous v olatile o rganic c ompounds (VOCs), which can only be reduced through adequate ventilation. The present investigation considered data 463 participants the fourth year age within a project Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research. 39 them developed wheezing symptoms, 148 bronchitis 397 infections. A novel model, based on logistic regression, was used to find associations between certain VOC concentrations outcome airway diseases. analysis involved gender, contact with cats, environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), prevalence atopy both parents. aim threshold VOCs give recommendations abatement environmentally caused research proved findings other studies, instance, that “wheezing ever” appeared when high hexane, benzene, ethylbenzene, chlorbenzene were reported. Such relationships observed past year. number low (39) and, therefore, also some diseases (infection, asthma) tested their relationship concentrations.