Letter to the Study by Hyvönen et al. on Moisture Damage and MCS

Juha Pekkanen; Jussi Karjalainen; Jussi Lampi

doi:10.1016/j.shaw.2020.05.005

Letter to the Study by Hyvönen et al. on Moisture Damage and MCS

Saf Health Work. 2020 Sep;11(3):378-379. doi: 10.1016/j.shaw.2020.05.005. Epub 2020 Jun 12.

Authors

Juha Pekkanen¹, Jussi Karjalainen², Jussi Lampi³

Affiliations

¹ University of Helsinki, Department of Public Health and Environmental Health Unit, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland.
² Pulmonary Diseases and Allergology, Allergy Centre, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland.
³ Environmental Health Unit, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland.

Abstract

Due to the significant methodological problems in the empirical part of the paper and the very selective literature review, the conclusions of the paper are mostly unsupported.

Keywords: Epidemiology; Indoor air; MCS; Moisture damage; Symptoms.