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ReviewCurrent allergy and asthma reports2015

Indoor Fungal Exposure and Allergic Respiratory Disease.

Nicholas J Osborne, Christopher R Thornton, Richard A Sharpe

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Review in Current allergy and asthma reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Indoor allergen exposure in relation to sleep health among US adults.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. Global · 2025
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  8. Exposure to Indoor Mouldy Odour Increases the Risk of Asthma in Older Adults Living in Social Housing.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019
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  9. Indoor mould exposure, asthma and rhinitis: findings from systematic reviews and recent longitudinal studies.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Nicholas J OsborneClinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Research Group, Discipline of Pharmacology, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia. nicholas.osborne@sydney.edu.au.
Christopher R ThorntonBiosciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Stocker Road, Exeter, EX4 4QD, UK. c.r.thornton@exeter.ac.uk.
Richard A SharpeEuropean Centre for Environment and Human Health, Knowledge Spa, Royal Cornwall Hospital, University of Exeter Medical School, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 3HD, UK. r.sharpe@exeter.ac.uk.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A gathering body of evidence has repeatedly revealed associations between indoor fungi and initiation, promotion, and exacerbation of allergic respiratory disease. The relationship between the exposure and outcome are complicated by the difficulties in measuring both exposure and outcome, the multifactorial nature of the disease, and the wide range of potential confounders. New technologies are becoming available that may enable better measurement of exposure and tighter case definitions so as to build more confidence in the associations discovered. The growing strength of the evidence base will aid the design of future public health interventions and generate new hypotheses on the cause of the rapid increase in allergic respiratory disease prevalence.

Indexed as

Air Pollution, IndoorAllergensAnimalsFungiHumansHypersensitivityRespiration DisordersRisk FactorsAllergensAllergic respiratory diseaseAllergyAsthmaEnvironment and allergyEpidemiologyFungiIndoor fungal exposure

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