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Environmental exposure to air pollution and allergens and peak flow changes.

Higgins, B G; Francis, H C; Yates, C; Warburton, C J; Fletcher, A M; Pickering, C A; Woodcock, A A

The European respiratory journal : official journal of the European Society for Clinical Respiratory Physiology. 2000;16(1):61-6.

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Laboratory-based studies have shown that ozone and nitrogen dioxide can potentiate the effect of allergen in sensitized asthmatic subjects, but it is not known whether this interaction is important under natural exposure conditions. Thirty-five subjects with clinical diagnoses of asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and with a provocative dose causing a 20% fall in forced expiratory volume in one second methacholine <12.25 micromol (using the Yan method) kept peak expiratory flow (PEF) records for a 4-week period during late summer, with concurrent measurement of spore and pollen counts and pollution levels. Multiple regression analysis was then used to determine the effect on PEF of aeroallergen, and of the interaction between aeroallergen and pollutant levels. A statistically significant interaction was demonstrated between total spore count and ozone, but not nitrogen dioxide. Mean PEF fell in association with increasing spore count (same-day and 24-h lag level) and PEF variability increased with increasing spore count (24-h lag level only); both changes were greater the higher the prior ozone level. These results suggest that ozone can potentiate the effect of aeroallergens in subjects with bronchial hyperreactivity under natural exposure conditions. However, the effect was small, and the clinical significance of the interaction requires further study.

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DENMARK
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16
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61-6
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10933086
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uk-ac-man-scw:194141
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Heydon, Kirsty
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7th May, 2013, 09:55:18
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