| Descriptor English: | Environmental Illness | ||||||
| Descriptor Spanish: |
Enfermedades Ambientales
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| Descriptor Portuguese: | Doença Ambiental | ||||||
| Descriptor French: | Maladie environnementale | ||||||
| Entry term(s): |
Environmental Hypersensitivities Environmental Hypersensitivity Environmental Illnesses Hypersensitivities, Environmental Hypersensitivity, Environmental Illness, Environmental Illnesses, Environmental |
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| Tree number(s): |
C20.543.312 C21.223 SP4.909.249 |
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| RDF Unique Identifier: | https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D018876 | ||||||
| Scope note: | A polysymptomatic condition believed by clinical ecologists to result from immune dysregulation induced by common foods, allergens, and chemicals, resulting in various physical and mental disorders. The medical community has remained largely skeptical of the existence of this "disease", given the plethora of symptoms attributed to environmental illness, the lack of reproducible laboratory abnormalities, and the use of unproven therapies to treat the condition. (From Segen, Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992) |
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| Annotation: | general or unspecified; prefer specifics; coordinate with specific disease or source of illness; not for diseases caused by environmental pollution: index under specific disease and ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION or specific environmental pollutant |
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| Allowable Qualifiers: |
BL blood CF cerebrospinal fluid CI chemically induced CL classification CN congenital CO complications DG diagnostic imaging DH diet therapy DI diagnosis DT drug therapy EC economics EH ethnology EM embryology EN enzymology EP epidemiology ET etiology GE genetics HI history IM immunology ME metabolism MI microbiology MO mortality NU nursing PA pathology PC prevention & control PP physiopathology PS parasitology PX psychology RH rehabilitation RT radiotherapy SU surgery TH therapy UR urine VE veterinary VI virology |
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| Public MeSH Note: | 96 |
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| History Note: | 96 |
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| Entry Version: | ENVIR ILLNESS |
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| DeCS ID: | 32759 | ||||||
| Unique ID: | D018876 | ||||||
| Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): | Click here to access the VHL documents | ||||||
| Date Established: | 1996/01/01 | ||||||
| Date of Entry: | 1995/05/19 | ||||||
| Revision Date: | 2001/07/25 |
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PUBLIC HEALTH
Environmental Health [SP4]Environmental Health -
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Environmental Illness
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| Concept UI |
M0028231 |
| Scope note | A polysymptomatic condition believed by clinical ecologists to result from immune dysregulation induced by common foods, allergens, and chemicals, resulting in various physical and mental disorders. The medical community has remained largely skeptical of the existence of this "disease", given the plethora of symptoms attributed to environmental illness, the lack of reproducible laboratory abnormalities, and the use of unproven therapies to treat the condition. (From Segen, Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992) |
| Preferred term | Environmental Illness |
| Entry term(s) |
Environmental Hypersensitivities Environmental Hypersensitivity Environmental Illnesses Hypersensitivities, Environmental Hypersensitivity, Environmental Illness, Environmental Illnesses, Environmental |
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