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Appendix B: Building-Related Symptoms
Appendix B: Building-Related Symptoms
Pages 297-309
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Aircraft cabins have environmental problems similar to those of modern of fices. Both aircraft and of lice buildings attempt to balance energy efficiency with other needs such as adequate ventilation, clean air, and acceptable temperature and humidity levels.
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that may provide information on aircraft cabin air quality are descnbed. CHARACTERIZATION OF BUILDING-RELATED- SYMPTOMS In buildings, the combination of reduced ventilation and contaminant emissions can result in serious costly, unexpected, and often unexplained health complaints by building occupants.
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Statistical analyses were conducted by categorizing BRS complaints into mucous membrane or chest and breathing difficulties. These analyses demonstrated a significant dose-response relationship between indoor CO2 and the incidence of BRS symptoms involving mucous membrane irntation, chest tightness, and wheezing.
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whether exposed to air orVOCs; however, the discomfort ratings were greater with exposure to VOCs at all times. Although a brief conventional, neuropsychological test battery revealed no significant performance deficits, a prolonged performance assay might offer a more suitable criterion for assessing such potential deficits.
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(2000) designed a questionnaire to evaluate cabin crew responses to a variety of conditions including health complaints.
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302 The Airliner Cabin Environment and the Health of Passengers and Crew TABLE B-l Complaints of Flight Attendants and Passengers, ~ 993-] 997 Flight Attendants Passengers Total No.
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The building data are measurements from public buildings and exclude situations with either smoking or cooking. The nitrogen oxide concentrations reported in the National institution for Occupational Safety and Health aircraft study are high relative to concentrations typically measured within buildings.
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These reports are not solicited by a regulatory or health agency or gathered in a systematic manner, and are pnmanly a response to air-quality incidents. As emphasized in Chapter 6, systematic information about symptoms must be acquired using appropriate methods and tools for measuring subjective health and comfort variables such as incitation and fatigue.
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1999. Indoor air quality investigation on commercial aircraft.
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2000. The effects of outdoor air supply rate in an office on perceived air quality, sick building syndrome (SBS)
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1993. California Residential Indoor Air Study.
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