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ReviewPaediatric drugs2013

Pediatric allergic rhinitis and asthma: can the march be halted?

Olympia A Tsilochristou, Nikolaos Douladiris, Michael Makris, Nikolaos G Papadopoulos

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Review in Paediatric drugs, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Allergen Immunotherapy for the Prevention and Treatment of Asthma.Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2025
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  5. Allergies, Allergic Comorbidities and the Home Environment in Pediatric Asthma in Southern Florida.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
    Article
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Olympia A TsilochristouAllergy Unit "D. Kalogeromitros," Medical School, "Attikon" University Hospital, 1, Rimini str, 124 62, Chaidari, Athens, Greece, ol.tsilochristou@gmail.com.
Nikolaos Douladiris
Michael Makris
Nikolaos G Papadopoulos

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The strong epidemiologic and pathophysiologic link between allergic rhinitis (AR) and asthma has led to the concept of 'united airways disease' or 'respiratory allergy', implying that allergy, in its widest sense, underlies this clinical syndrome. Progression from AR to asthma is frequent and part of the 'atopic march'. Since pediatric immune responses are more adaptable and therefore may be more amenable to treatment, interventions at early childhood are characterized by a higher chance to affect the natural history of respiratory allergy. Although current treatments are quite effective in alleviating respiratory allergy symptoms, it has proven much more difficult to confirm any influence on the progression of the disease. Much more promising is the field of specific allergen immunotherapy, where current evidence, although not yet of ideal robustness, points towards a disease-modifying effect. In addition, newer or emerging, possibly more effective or more targeted interventions are promising in the preventive sense.

Indexed as

ImmunotherapyAdolescentAsthmaChildDisease ProgressionHistamine AntagonistsHumansPrevalenceRhinitis, AllergicRhinitis, Allergic, PerennialHistamine Antagonists

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