Sentence examples for visible dampness from inspiring English sources

Each study generally reported multiple findings (for example, four findings from a study reporting estimates for associations between visible dampness and daytime wheeze, visible dampness and nighttime wheeze, mold odor and daytime wheeze, and mold odor and nighttime wheeze).

Factors not related to endotoxin concentration included having a cat, visible dampness or mold, and carpet type.

We gave primary consideration to associations between specific health outcomes (e.g., wheeze) and one or more qualitative assessments of indoor dampness or mold (e.g., visible dampness, visible mold, water damage, or mold odor), with the latter grouped for review.

Teach et al. (2006) reported that visible dampness or mold in the home during the previous month was not associated with unscheduled medical care visits above the median, persistent asthma symptoms, or quality-of-life scores below the median.

However, conventional quantitative measurements of fungi or other microbiologic exposures, such as counts of culturable airborne fungi, have shown less consistent associations with health effects than have qualitative assessments of visible dampness or water damage, visible mold, or mold odor.

One review of data from 625 buildings in Southern California found mold concentrations < 4,000 spores/m in 90% of buildings with no history of water damage and no visible dampness or mold.

Studies highlight problems, such as large, visible cracks, dampness, the absence of plastering (Govender et al. 2011; Ntema n.d)., poorly laid and inadequately waterproofed floor slabs (Ngxubaza 2010), and poor ventilation and thermoregulation (Aigbavboa and Thwala 2011).

39 The meta-analysis of eight European birth cohorts found an association between exposure to visible mould or dampness and increased wheeze at 2 years (OR 1.4) but this was not significant at 6 8 years (OR 1.1).

Effect estimates were robust to adjustment for older siblings, breastfeeding, parental atopy, child care, maternal smoking during pregnancy, environmental tobacco smoke, visible mold or dampness, use of gas stove, birth season, and parental socioeconomic status.

The aim of our study is to investigate the impacts of exposures to passive smoking, traffic-related air pollution, dampness, visible moulds, bleaching agents, house dust mites, pets and domestic heating on the development of asthma in the first year of life, which is a period of life when the lung is still developing.

The evidence was only suggestive that dampness or visible mold causes lower respiratory illness, such as bronchitis, and asthma in healthy kids, the report says.