ArticleThe Journal of allergy and clinical immunology2022
Association of mold levels in urban children's homes with difficult-to-control asthma.
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- Severe Fungal Asthma: A Role for Biologics and Inhaled Antifungals.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Leukocyte redistribution as immunological biomarker of corticosteroid resistance in severe asthma.Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundMold sensitization and exposure are associated with asthma severity, but the specific species that contribute to difficult-to-control (DTC) asthma are unknown.
objectiveWe sought to determine the association between overall and specific mold levels in the homes of urban children and DTC asthma.
methodsThe Asthma Phenotypes in the Inner-City study recruited participants, aged 6 to 17 years, from 8 US cities and classified each participant as having either DTC asthma or easy-to-control (ETC) asthma on the basis of treatment step level. Dust samples had been collected in each participant's home (n = 485), and any dust remaining (n = 265 samples), after other analyses, was frozen at -20
resultsFrozen-dust samples were available from 54% of homes of children with DTC (139 of 253) and ETC asthma (126 of 232). Only the average concentration of the mold Mucor was significantly (P < .001) greater in homes of children with DTC asthma. In homes with window air-conditioning units, the Mucor concentration contributed about a 22% increase (1.6 odds ratio; 95% CI, 1.2-2.2) in the ability to discriminate between cases of DTC and ETC asthma.
conclusionsMucor levels in the homes of urban youth were a predictor of DTC asthma, and these higher Mucor levels were more likely in homes with a window air-conditioner.
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