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The role of outdoor air pollution and climatic changes on the rising trends in respiratory allergy

Gennaro D'Amato, +3 more
- 01 Jul 2001 - 
- Vol. 95, Iss: 7, pp 606-611
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Air pollutants may promote airway sensitization by modulating the allergenicity of airborne allergens, and airway mucosal damage and impaired mucociliary clearance induced by air pollution may facilitate the access of inhaled allergens to the cells of the immune system.
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This article is published in Respiratory Medicine.The article was published on 2001-07-01 and is currently open access. It has received 172 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Airborne allergen.

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Allergenic pollen and pollen allergy in Europe

TL;DR: Even though pollen production and dispersal from year to year depend on the patterns of preseason weather and on the conditions prevailing at the time of anthesis, it is usually possible to forecast the chances of encountering high atmospheric allergenic pollen concentrations in different areas.
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Bioaerosols in the Earth system: Climate, health, and ecosystem interactions

TL;DR: A review of the state of bioaerosol research, highlights recent advances, and outlines future perspectives in terms of identification, characterization, transport and transformation processes, as well as their interactions with climate, health, and ecosystems, focusing on the role bio-aerosols play in the Earth system.
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International Consensus Statement on Allergy and Rhinology: Allergic Rhinitis.

Sarah K. Wise, +71 more
TL;DR: To evaluate the existing AR literature, international multidisciplinary experts with an interest in AR have produced the International Consensus statement on Allergy and Rhinology: Allergic Rhinitis (ICAR:AR).
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Meteorological conditions, climate change, new emerging factors, and asthma and related allergic disorders. A statement of the World Allergy Organization

TL;DR: Global warming is expected to affect the start, duration, and intensity of the pollen season, and the rate of asthma exacerbations due to air pollution, respiratory infections, and/or cold air inhalation, and other conditions on the other hand.
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An Association between Air Pollution and Mortality in Six U.S. Cities

TL;DR: It is suggested that fine-particulate air pollution, or a more complex pollution mixture associated with fine particulate matter, contributes to excess mortality in certain U.S. cities.
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Particulate air pollution as a predictor of mortality in a prospective study of U.S. adults.

TL;DR: Increased mortality is associated with sulfate and fine particulate air pollution at levels commonly found in U.S. cities, although the increase in risk is not attributable to tobacco smoking, although other unmeasured correlates of pollution cannot be excluded with certainty.
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Particulate air pollution and acute health effects

TL;DR: It is suggested that ultra-fine particles in the nature of the urban particulate cloud are able to provoke alveolar inflammation, with release of mediators capable, in susceptible individuals, of causing exacerbations of lung disease and of increasing blood coagulability, thus also explaining the observed increases in cardiovascular deaths associated with urban pollution episodes.

Variations in the prevalence of respiratory symptoms, self- reported asthma attacks, and use of asthma medication in the European Community Respiratory Health Survey (ECRHS)

TL;DR: A descriptive account of the variation in self-reported attacks of asthma and asthma symptoms across Europe, and the best evidence to date that geographical differences in asthma prevalence exist, are substantial and are not an artefact of the use of noncomparable methods is presented.
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