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Background. Elevated perc above dry cleaners New York City 1990-1997 median levels 441-530 ug/m 3 range 7-25,086 ug/m 3 Perc associated with altered vision color vision (50,000 ug/m 3 ) visual contrast sensitivity (2,250 ug/m 3 ) Other solvents alter vision

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  1. Background • Elevated perc above dry cleaners • New York City 1990-1997 • median levels 441-530 ug/m3 • range 7-25,086 ug/m3 • Perc associated with altered vision • color vision (50,000 ug/m3) • visual contrast sensitivity (2,250 ug/m3) • Other solvents alter vision • styrene, toluene, mixed solvents

  2. Questions • Is living in a building with an onsite dry cleaner associated with altered vision? • What level of residential perc is harmful? • relationship between perc exposure and vision • relationship between environmental and biological measures of perc exposure • Are children more vulnerable than adults? • child and adult exposures • child and adult effect

  3. Data Collected • Environmental -- Indoor Air Perc Level • - households with parent/child pairs • - buildings with and without dry cleaners • Biological -- Breath, blood perc level • - parent and child • - home and clinic • Health Outcome -- Visual Function • - parent and child

  4. Study Area

  5. Non-working or non-residential number or vacant household Total Telephone Numbers or Households 3177 397 Not contacted and/or refused screening Total Sampling Frame 2780 1519 Not eligible – no children present Households Contacted 1261 1129 Not eligible – medical condition, residence duration, current or previous VOC exposures Potentially Eligible 132 43 Eligible 89 Did not participate 24 Participated 65

  6. Elevated Perc is Present in 54% of Residential Dry Cleaner Buildings Sampled

  7. Indoor air perc (ug/m3) by census block group characteristics

  8. Self-reported race/ethnicity, annual income ranges

  9. Indoor air perc (ug/m3) by self-reported race/ethnicity and income ranges * *

  10. Perc in home breath samples by income Adults Children

  11. Perc in clinic breath samples by income Adults * Children

  12. Perc in home breath samples by race/ethnicity Adults Children

  13. Perc in clinic breath samples by race/ethnicity Adults Children *

  14. Perc in blood samples by income * * Adults Children

  15. Perc in blood samples by race/ethnicity * Adults Children *

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