Climate Change and Allergic Disease

Current Allergy and Asthma Reports - Tập 12 - Trang 485-494 - 2012
Leonard Bielory1, Kevin Lyons2, Robert Goldberg3
1Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
2Rutgers University School of Business, Piscataway, USA
3Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, New York, USA

Tóm tắt

Allergies are prevalent throughout the United States and impose a substantial quality of life and economic burden. The potential effect of climate change has an impact on allergic disorders through variability of aeroallergens, food allergens and insect-based allergic venoms. Data suggest allergies (ocular and nasal allergies, allergic asthma and sinusitis) have increased in the United States and that there are changes in allergies to stinging insect populations (vespids, apids and fire ants). The cause of this upward trend is unknown, but any climate change may induce augmentation of this trend; the subspecialty of allergy and immunology needs to be keenly aware of potential issues that are projected for the near and not so distant future.

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