Rumchev Krassi, Brown Helen, Spickett Jeffery
School of Public Health, Curtin University of Technology, Perth WA 6845, Australia.
Rev Environ Health. 2007 Jan-Mar;22(1):39-55. doi: 10.1515/reveh.2007.22.1.39.
Indoor air quality has been recognised as a significant health, environment, and economic issue in many countries. Research findings have demonstrated that some air pollutants occur more frequently and at a higher concentration in indoor air than in outdoor air, including volatile organic compounds (VOCs). In this context, the indoor environment can be of crucial importance because modem society spends most of their time indoors, and exposure to VOCs may result in a spectrum of illnesses ranging from mild, such as irritation, to very severe effects, including cancer. These effects have been seen at very low levels of exposure in many epidemiological studies. In this review, we discuss the nature of the VOCs that are ubiquitous in indoor environment and the evidence for adverse health effects associated with exposure to some of these compounds.
在许多国家，室内空气质量已被视为一个重大的健康、环境和经济问题。研究结果表明，一些空气污染物在室内空气中出现的频率更高、浓度也更高，其中包括挥发性有机化合物（VOCs）。在这种情况下，室内环境可能至关重要，因为现代社会的大部分时间都在室内度过，接触VOCs可能导致一系列疾病，从轻微的如刺激反应到非常严重的影响，包括癌症。在许多流行病学研究中，这些影响在极低的暴露水平下就已被观察到。在本综述中，我们讨论了在室内环境中普遍存在的VOCs的性质，以及接触其中一些化合物与不良健康影响相关的证据。
