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Impacts of oak pollen on allergic asthma in the United States and potential influence of future climate change.
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- Synergistic health effects of air pollution, temperature, and pollen exposure: a systematic review of epidemiological evidence.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2020Pooled it
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- Association Between Observed Climate Change and Cardiovascular Disease in the United States.GeoHealth · 2026Article
- Chronic and infectious respiratory mortality and short-term exposures to four types of pollen taxa in older adults in Michigan, 2006-2017.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The Social Cost of Ozone-Related Mortality Impacts From Methane Emissions.Earth's future · 2023Article
- Pollen and asthma morbidity in Atlanta: A 26-year time-series study.Environment international · 2023Article
- Projected climate-driven changes in pollen emission season length and magnitude over the continental United States.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Toward an Integrated System of Climate Change and Human Health Indicators: A Conceptual Framework.Climatic change · 2021Article
- Ozone-related asthma emergency department visits in the US in a warming climate.Environmental research · 2020Article
- Proteomic identification of allergenic proteins in red oak (The World Allergy Organization journal · 2020Article
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- Impact of weather and climate change with indoor and outdoor air quality in asthma: A Work Group Report of the AAAAI Environmental Exposure and Respiratory Health Committee.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2019Review
- Climate damages and adaptation potential across diverse sectors of the United States.Nature climate change · 2019Article
- Evaluating the Risk of Epidemic Thunderstorm Asthma: Lessons from Australia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- 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
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Abstract
Future climate change is expected to lengthen and intensify pollen seasons in the U.S., potentially increasing incidence of allergic asthma. We developed a proof-of-concept approach for estimating asthma emergency department (ED) visits in the U.S. associated with present-day and climate-induced changes in oak pollen. We estimated oak pollen season length for moderate (Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 4.5) and severe climate change scenarios (RCP8.5) through 2090 using five climate models and published relationships between temperature, precipitation, and oak pollen season length. We calculated asthma ED visit counts associated with 1994-2010 average oak pollen concentrations and simulated future oak pollen season length changes using the Environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program, driven by epidemiologically derived concentration-response relationships. Oak pollen was associated with 21,200 (95% confidence interval, 10,000-35,200) asthma ED visits in the Northeast, Southeast, and Midwest U.S. in 2010, with damages valued at $10.4 million. Nearly 70% of these occurred among children age <18 years. Severe climate change could increase oak pollen season length and associated asthma ED visits by 5% and 10% on average in 2050 and 2090, with a marginal net present value through 2090 of $10.4 million (additional to the baseline value of $346.2 million). Moderate versus severe climate change could avoid >50% of the additional oak pollen-related asthma ED visits in 2090. Despite several key uncertainties and limitations, these results suggest that aeroallergens pose a substantial U.S. public health burden, that climate change could increase U.S. allergic disease incidence, and that mitigating climate change may have benefits from avoided pollen-related health impacts.
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