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ReviewCurrent allergy and asthma reports2018

The Influence of Age on the Relationship Between Allergic Rhinitis and Otitis Media.

Rachel E Roditi, Jennifer J Shin

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Review in Current allergy and asthma reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 32% of its field
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

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Association between air pollution and allergic upper respiratory diseases: a meta-analysis.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2025
    Pooled it
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  4. Patient-Centered Approach to Assessing Voice Impairment.JAMA otolaryngology-- head & neck surgery · 2025
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  6. Allergy in pathogenesis of Eustachian Tube Dysfunction.The World Allergy Organization journal · 2024
    Review
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  9. Frontiers in genetics · 2022
    Article
  10. Genetic Loci in Phospholipase C-Like 1 (Journal of asthma and allergy · 2022
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  11. Bidirectional association between asthma and otitis media in children.Allergy, asthma, and clinical immunology : official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2021
    Article
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rachel E RoditiDepartment of Otolaryngology, Harvard Medical School, 45 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Jennifer J ShinDepartment of Otolaryngology, Harvard Medical School, 45 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. jennifer_shin@meei.harvard.edu.
Harvard University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewTo examine the relationship between otitis media, allergic rhinitis, and age. RECENT

findingsOtitis media and allergic rhinitis are prevalent conditions with a controversial relationship. Some data suggest that these entities are significantly associated, either through allergic rhinitis inducing Eustachian tube dysfunction or through allergic pathophysiology simultaneously occurring intranasally and in the ear. Other studies, however, have refuted this relationship. For example, treatment with antihistamines does not reliably improve OME, making causation and association challenging to establish. Age may have an effect on the nature of the relationship between allergic rhinitis and otitis media, by impacting both the individual conditions and their association. Epidemiological, immunological, and adenoidal studies have suggested that differences occur with age, and this review encapsulates the related data and publications. We begin by evaluating how allergic rhinitis and otitis media each are affected by age, then evaluate the role that age may have in the relationship between the two conditions. Adult and pediatric literature are evaluated so as to include the full impact of age across patients' lifespan. Age induces changes in immunity, patterns of inflammation, and susceptibility to both allergic rhinitis and otitis media with effusion. Age may also be an effect modifier which impacts the nature of the relationship between these two conditions. The influence of age on the association between these highly prevalent conditions remains a topic of active study.

Indexed as

AdenoidsAge FactorsEosinophiliaHumansImmune SystemMucinsOtitis MediaRhinitis, AllergicMucinsAgeAllergic rhinitisEosinophilic otitis mediaEustachian tube dysfunctionOtitis media with effusionUnified airway

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