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Indoor Air

Title:		Association of subjective health symptoms with indoor air quality in European office buildings: The OFFICAIR project
Author(s):		Sakellaris I; Saraga D; Mandin C; De Kluizenaar Y; Fossati S; Spinazze A; Cattaneo A; Mihucz V; Szigeti T; De Oliveira Fernandes E; Kalimeri K; Mabilia R; Carrer P; Bartzis J;
Address:		"Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, Kozani, Greece. Atmospheric Chemistry & Innovative Technologies Laboratory, INRASTES, National Center for Scientific Research 'DEMOKRITOS', Athens, Greece. CSTB-Centre Scientifique et Technique du Batiment, Universite Paris Est, Marne-la-Vallee Cedex 2, France. The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), The Hague, The Netherlands. ISGlobal, Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain. Department of Science and High Technology, University of Insubria, Como, Italy. Cooperative Research Centre for Environmental Sciences, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary. National Public Health Center, Budapest, Hungary. Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management, Porto, Portugal. Department of Biology, Agriculture and Food Science, National Research Council, Roma, Italy. Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences-Hospital 'L. Sacco', University of Milan, Milano, Italy"
Journal Title:		Indoor Air
Year:		2021
Volume:		20201007
Issue:		2
Page Number:		426 - 439
DOI:		10.1111/ina.12749
ISSN/ISBN:		1600-0668 (Electronic) 0905-6947 (Linking)
Abstract:		"The aim of this study was to explore the association between the building-related occupants' reported health symptoms and the indoor pollutant concentrations in a sample of 148 office rooms, within the framework of the European OFFICAIR research project. A large field campaign was performed in 37 office buildings among eight countries, which included (a) 5-day air sampling of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), aldehydes, ozone, and NO(2) (b) collection of information from 1299 participants regarding their personal characteristics and health perception at workplace using online questionnaires. Stepwise and multilevel logistic regressions were applied to investigate associations between health symptoms and pollutant concentrations considering personal characteristics as confounders. Occupants of offices with higher pollutant concentrations were more likely to report health symptoms. Among the studied VOCs, xylenes were associated with general (such as headache and tiredness) and skin symptoms, ethylbenzene with eye irritation and respiratory symptoms, a-pinene with respiratory and heart symptoms, d-limonene with general symptoms, and styrene with skin symptoms. Among aldehydes, formaldehyde was associated with respiratory and general symptoms, acrolein with respiratory symptoms, propionaldehyde with respiratory, general, and heart symptoms, and hexanal with general SBS. Ozone was associated with almost all symptom groups"
Keywords:		"*Air Pollution, Indoor Aldehydes Diagnostic Self Evaluation Environmental Monitoring Formaldehyde Humans Inhalation Exposure/*statistics & numerical data Sick Building Syndrome Volatile Organic Compounds Workplace health perception office workers ozone;"
Notes:		"MedlineSakellaris, Ioannis Saraga, Dikaia Mandin, Corinne de Kluizenaar, Yvonne Fossati, Serena Spinazze, Andrea Cattaneo, Andrea Mihucz, Victor Szigeti, Tamas de Oliveira Fernandes, Eduardo Kalimeri, Krystallia Mabilia, Rosanna Carrer, Paolo Bartzis, John eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't England 2020/09/24 Indoor Air. 2021 Mar; 31(2):426-439. doi: 10.1111/ina.12749. Epub 2020 Oct 7"