How is the indoor environment related to asthma?: literature review

G Richardson, S Eick, R Jones - Journal of advanced nursing, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… Humidity, dampness, and temperature are commonly cited as being important to the health
of occupants. As humidity and dampness are strongly indirectly linked to asthma, they are …

Associations between home dampness and presence of molds with asthma and allergic symptoms among young children in the tropics

KW Tham, MS Zuraimi, D Koh… - Pediatric Allergy and …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
… associations of dampness and molds with asthma symptoms. … the association of asthma
symptoms and dampness/molds in … associations of dampness with asthma and allergy symptoms…

Mould and dampness in dwelling places, and onset of asthma: the population-based cohort ECRHS

D Norbäck, JP Zock, E Plana, J Heinrich… - Occupational and …, 2013 - oem.bmj.com
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the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and …

Dampness in Buildings and Health.

CG Bornehag, G Blomquist, F Gyntelberg… - Indoor …, 2001 - search.ebscohost.com
… Current asthma was not associated with dampness The … (mostly asthma) as the criterion
for cases. The reported association between "dampness" and health may be due to casual links

Damp housing and asthma: a case-control study.

IJ Williamson, CJ Martin, G McGill, RD Monie… - Thorax, 1997 - thorax.bmj.com
… , but links with specific respiratory diseases such as asthma … of of dampness in the home
with increasing severity of asthma (… of dampness to rise with increasing severity of asthma. Fur- …

On associations between housing characteristics, dampness and asthma and allergies among children in Northeast Texas

Y Sun, J Sundell - Indoor and Built Environment, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
… risk and protection factors for asthma and allergy but also region… , dampness and their
associations with asthma and allergies … Create a link to share a read only version of this article …

Home dampness, current allergic diseases, and respiratory infections among young adults

M Kilpeläinen, EO Terho, H Helenius, M Koskenvuo - Thorax, 2001 - thorax.bmj.com
… the association between reported home dampness and current asthma, allergic rhinitis and
dampness on the risk of asthma also suggests that the factor linking dampness and asthma

[PDF][PDF] Indoor molds and asthma in adults

MS Jaakkola, JJK Jaakkola - Advances in applied microbiology, 2004 - academia.edu
… The main causes of asthma in indoor dampness situations … The mechanisms through which
indoor molds cause asthma are … -linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). These eight microbes …

Childhood asthma and the indoor environment

C Dekker, R Dales, S Bartlett, B Brunekreef… - Chest, 1991 - Elsevier
… In particular, the OR for the association between asthma and exposure to tobacco smoke,
dampness and mold and gas stoves together was 5.4 (95 percent CI 2.7, 9.5). The maximum …

Association of indoor dampness and molds with rhinitis risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis

MS Jaakkola, R Quansah, TT Hugg… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2013 - Elsevier
… EEs for rhinitis than for asthma. We did not … asthma. This suggests that microbes play an
important role also for rhinitis. However, other exposures suggested to be important for asthma