Respiratory symptoms and pulmonary function in paint industry workers exposed to volatile organic compounds: A systematic review and meta-analysis

• Lavanya Sekhar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physiology, Sri Ramachandra Medical College & Research Institute, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research(SRIHER), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9714-2416

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• Akila Govindarajan Venguidesvarane,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (SRIHER), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Gayathri Thiruvengadam ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gayathri Thiruvengadam, Yogita Sharma

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (SRIHER), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2753-0717

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• Yogita Sharma ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gayathri Thiruvengadam, Yogita Sharma

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

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• Vidhya Venugopal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Faculty of Public Health, SRIHER (DU), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Santhanam Rengarajan,

  Roles Supervision, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research (BIHER), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4061-2768

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• Priscilla Johnson

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: priscillajohnson@sriramachandra.edu.in

  Affiliation Department of Physiology, Sri Ramachandra Medical College & Research Institute, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research(SRIHER), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9611-6555

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