Chemical Sensitivity: The Scientific Literature

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• Personal Author:
  Fiedler N ; Kipen H
• Description:
  This article provides an overview of the scientific literature in which chemically sensitive patients have been directly evaluated. For that purpose, consideration of various case definitions is offered along with summaries of subjects' demographic profiles, exposure characteristics, and symptom profiles across studies. Controlled investigations of chemically sensitive subjects without other organic illnesses are reviewed. To date, psychiatric, personality, cognitive/neurologic, immunologic, and olfactory studies have been conducted comparing subjects with primary chemical sensitivity to various control groups. Thus far, the most consistent finding is that chemically sensitive patients have a higher rate of psychiatric disorders across studies and relative to diverse comparison groups. However, since these studies are cross-sectional, causality cannot be implied. Demonstrating the role of low-level chemical exposure in a controlled environment has yet to be undertaken with this patient group and is crucial to the understanding of this phenomenon. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Immune System Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Chemical Sensitivity Chemical Hypersensitivity Chemicals Immune Immune Reaction MCS Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Neurologic Neurological Reactions Olfaction Psychiatric Psychological Factors Unexplained Symptoms

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• ISSN:
  0091-6765
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  New Jersey ; New York ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  409-415
• Volume:
  105
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20059999
• Citation:
  Environ Health Perspect 1997 Mar; 105(Suppl 2):409-415
• Contact Point Address:
  Dr. N. Fiedler, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Environmental and Health Sciences Institute, 681 Frelinghuysen Road, Room 210, Piscataway, NJ 08855
• Email:
  Fiedler@eohsi.rutgers.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1997
• Performing Organization:
  Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  19920701
• Source Full Name:
  Environmental Health Perspectives
• Supplement:
  2
• End Date:
  19970630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/224043/cdc_224043_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 1.32 MB ]