ArticleEcoHealth2016
Short-Term Effect of Pollen and Spore Exposure on Allergy Morbidity in the Brussels-Capital Region.
Article in EcoHealth, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Short term physician visits and medication prescriptions for allergic disease associated with seasonal tree, grass, and weed pollen exposure across the United States.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2021Pooled it
- Short-term exposure to pollen and the risk of allergic and asthmatic manifestations: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ open · 2020Pooled it
- Pollen and viruses contribute to spatio-temporal variation in asthma-related emergency department visits.Environmental research · 2024Article
- Impact of Fungal Spores on Asthma Prevalence and Hospitalization.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Urban-scale variation in pollen concentrations: A single station is insufficient to characterize daily exposure.Aerobiologia · 2020Article
- Effect of intra-urban temperature variation on tree flowering phenology, airborne pollen, and measurement error in epidemiological studies of allergenic pollen.The Science of the total environment · 2019Article
- Relationships between aeroallergen levels and hospital admissions for asthma in the Brussels-Capital Region: a daily time series analysis.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2018Article
- Comparative long-term trend analysis of daily weather conditions with daily pollen concentrations in Brussels, Belgium.International journal of biometeorology · 2018Article
- Importance of allergen-environment interactions in epidemic thunderstorm asthma.Therapeutic advances in respiratory diseaseArticle
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Abstract
Belgium is among the European countries that are the most affected by allergic rhinitis. Pollen grains and fungal spores represent important triggers of symptoms. However, few studies have investigated their real link with disease morbidity over several years. Based on aeroallergen counts and health insurance datasets, the relationship between daily changes in pollen, fungal spore concentrations and daily changes in reimbursable systemic antihistamine sales has been investigated between 2005 and 2011 in the Brussels-Capital Region. A Generalized Linear Model was used and adjusted for air pollution, meteorological conditions, flu, seasonal component and day of the week. We observed an augmentation in drug sales despite no significant increase in allergen levels in the long term. The relative risk of buying allergy medications associated with an interquartile augmentation in pollen distributions increased significantly for Poaceae, Betula, Carpinus, Fraxinus and Quercus. Poaceae affected the widest age group and led to the highest increase of risk which reached 1.13 (95% CI [1.11-1.14]) among the 19- to 39-year-old men. Betula showed the second most consistent relationship across age groups. Clear identification of the provoking agents may improve disease management by customizing prevention programmes. This work also opens several research perspectives related to impact of climate modification or subpopulation sensitivity.
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