Air filter materials, outdoor ozone and building-related symptoms in the BASE study
| Autor: | Anna G. Mirer, Michael G. Apte, I. S. H. Buchanan, Mark J. Mendell |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Předmět: |
Environmental Engineering
Ozone Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Environmental engineering Building and Construction Logistic regression Confidence interval law.invention chemistry.chemical_compound Sick building syndrome chemistry law Attributable risk Ventilation (architecture) Statistics Generalized estimating equation Air filter |
| Zdroj: | Indoor Air. 18:144-155 |
| ISSN: | 1600-0668 0905-6947 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1600-0668.2008.00519.x |
| Popis: | UNLABELLED Used ventilation air filters have been shown to reduce indoor environmental quality and worker performance and increase symptoms, with effects stronger after reaction of filters with ozone. We analyzed data from the US EPA Building Assessment Survey and Evaluation (BASE) study to determine if ozone and specific filter media have interactive effects on building-related symptoms (BRS). We analyzed a subset of 34 buildings from the BASE study of 100 US office buildings to determine the separate and joint associations of filter medium [polyester/synthetic (PS) or fiberglass (FG)] and outdoor ozone concentration (above/below the median, 67.6 microg/m(3)) with BRS. Using logistic regression models and general estimating equations, we estimated odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals for the association of filter medium, ozone, and filter medium x ozone with BRS. Relative to FG + low ozone, PS alone or high ozone alone, were each significantly (P < 0.05) associated only with fatigue/difficulty concentrating (ORs = 1.93 and 1.54, respectively). However, joint exposure to both PS + high ozone, relative to FG + low ozone, had significant associations with lower and upper respiratory, cough, eye, fatigue, and headache BRS (ORs ranged from 2.26 to 5.90). Joint ORs for PS + high ozone for lower and upper respiratory and headache BRS were much greater than multiplicative, with interaction P-values |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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