SynthesisEnvironmental health : a global access science source2021
Short term physician visits and medication prescriptions for allergic disease associated with seasonal tree, grass, and weed pollen exposure across the United States.
Synthesis in Environmental health : a global access science source, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Preoperative Pollen Exposure and Chronic Rhinosinusitis Outcomes After Endoscopic Sinus Surgery: A Pilot Investigation.Laryngoscope investigative otolaryngology · 2026Article
- Interpretable machine learning classification of cedar and cypress pollen on routine Durham slides for environmental exposure assessment.Frontiers in allergy · 2026Article
- Genetic mechanisms of pollinosis: interactions between genes and environmental factors.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2025Review
- Pollen Exposure and Chronic Rhinosinusitis Quality of Life Disease Severity.Laryngoscope investigative otolaryngology · 2025Article
- Airborne pollen exposure and risk of hospital admission for allergic rhinitis in Beijing: A time-stratified case-crossover study.Clinical and translational allergy · 2024Article
- Main Airborne Pollen Species and Characteristics of Allergic Rhinitis Patients with Pollen-Related Allergies in 13 Northern Chinese Cities.Journal of asthma and allergy · 2024Article
- The Impact of Climate Change on Asthma and Allergic-Immunologic Disease.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2023Review
- Joint association between ambient air pollutant mixture and pediatric asthma exacerbations.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2022Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundWhile year-round exposure to pollen is linked to a large burden of allergic diseases, location-specific risk information on pollen types and allergy outcomes are limited. We characterize the relationship between acute exposure to tree, grass and weed pollen taxa and two allergy outcomes (allergic rhinitis physician visit and prescription allergy medication fill) across 28 metropolitan statistical areas (MSA) in the United States.
methodsWe obtained daily pollen data from National Allergy Bureau (NAB) monitors at these 28 MSAs for 2008-2015. We revised the NAB guidelines to classify taxa-specific pollen severity each day. Daily information on allergic rhinitis and prescribed allergy medications for individuals with employer-based health insurance from the IBM MarketScan Research database for these MSAs. We combined the daily pollen and health data for each MSA into a longitudinal dataset. We conducted a MSA-specific conditional quasi-Poisson regression analysis to assess how different levels of pollen concentration impact the health outcomes, controlling for local air pollution, meteorology and Influenza-like illness (ILI). We used a random effects meta-analysis to produce an overall risk estimate for each pollen type and health outcome.
resultsThe seasonal distribution of pollen taxa and associated health impacts varied across the MSAs. Relative risk of allergic rhinitis visits increased as concentrations increased for all pollen types; relative risk of medication fills increased for tree and weed pollen only. We observed an increase in health risk even on days with moderate levels of pollen concentration. 7-day average concentration of pollen had stronger association with the health outcomes compared to the same-day measure. Controlling for air pollution and ILI had little impact on effect estimates.
conclusionThis analysis expands the catalogue of associations between different pollen taxa and allergy-related outcomes across multiple MSAs. The effect estimates we present can be used to project the burden of allergic disease in specific locations in the future as well inform patients with allergies on impending pollen exposure.
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