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Finding F-1224

“During the former observation term, all of the households showed significant decreases in the indoor concentrations of BTEX with passing time.”

House-plant placement for indoor air purification and health benefits on asthmatics… (2014). Environmental health and toxicology. Page 5. CKB 6935

Structure

Factor
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
Intervention
Indoor plants (phytoremediation)
Population
asthmatics and their households
Setting
home, KR
Study design
quasi-experimental study in the homes of asthmatics in Korea over two observation terms: households of continuation kept the indoor plants for both terms, households of withdrawal kept them for the first term and passed the second without any plants; formaldehyde and benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene were measured indoors, with peak expiratory flow rate twice a day and an asthma-specific quality of life questionnaire, compared with the Mann-Whitney test (class 3)
Caveat
a stated direction without a number; both groups still had the plants during this term, so the decrease is not a contrast between them

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