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Comhair SA Gaston BM Ricci KS Hammel J Dweik RA Teague WG Meyers D Ampleford EJ Bleecker ER Busse WW Calhoun WJ Castro M Chung KF Curran-Everett D Israel E Jarjour WN Moore W Peters SP Wenzel S Hazen SL Erzurum SC;National Heart Lung Blood Institute Severe Asthma Research Program 《PloS one》2011,6(5):e18574
Background
Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) has adverse effects on the health of asthmatics, however the harmful consequences of ETS in relation to asthma severity are unknown.Methods
In a multicenter study of severe asthma, we assessed the impact of ETS exposure on morbidity, health care utilization and lung functions; and activity of systemic superoxide dismutase (SOD), a potential oxidative target of ETS that is negatively associated with asthma severity.Findings
From 2002–2006, 654 asthmatics (non-severe 366, severe 288) were enrolled, among whom 109 non-severe and 67 severe asthmatics were routinely exposed to ETS as ascertained by history and validated by urine cotinine levels. ETS-exposure was associated with lower quality of life scores; greater rescue inhaler use; lower lung function; greater bronchodilator responsiveness; and greater risk for emergency room visits, hospitalization and intensive care unit admission. ETS-exposure was associated with lower levels of serum SOD activity, particularly in asthmatic women of African heritage.Interpretation
ETS-exposure of asthmatic individuals is associated with worse lung function, higher acuity of exacerbations, more health care utilization, and greater bronchial hyperreactivity. The association of diminished systemic SOD activity to ETS exposure provides for the first time a specific oxidant mechanism by which ETS may adversely affect patients with asthma. 相似文献2.
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Genomewide screen and identification of gene-gene interactions for asthma-susceptibility loci in three U.S. populations: collaborative study on the genetics of asthma
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Xu J Meyers DA Ober C Blumenthal MN Mellen B Barnes KC King RA Lester LA Howard TD Solway J Langefeld CD Beaty TH Rich SS Bleecker ER Cox NJ;Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Asthma 《American journal of human genetics》2001,68(6):1437-1446
The genomewide screen to search for asthma-susceptibility loci, in the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Asthma (CSGA), has been conducted in two stages and includes 266 families (199 nuclear and 67 extended pedigrees) from three U.S. populations: African American, European American, and Hispanic. Evidence for linkage with the asthma phenotype was observed for multiple chromosomal regions, through use of several analytical approaches that facilitated the identification of multiple disease loci. Ethnicity-specific analyses, which allowed for different frequencies of asthma-susceptibility genes in each ethnic population, provided the strongest evidence for linkage at 6p21 in the European American population, at 11q21 in the African American population, and at 1p32 in the Hispanic population. Both the conditional analysis and the affected-sib-pair two-locus analysis provided further evidence for linkage, at 5q31, 8p23, 12q22, and 15q13. Several of these regions have been observed in other genomewide screens and linkage or association studies, for asthma and related phenotypes. These results were used to develop a conceptual model to delineate asthma-susceptibility loci and their genetic interactions, which provides a promising basis for initiation of fine-mapping studies and, ultimately, for gene identification. 相似文献
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Evidence for asthma susceptibility genes on chromosome 11 in an African-American population 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
Huang SK Mathias RA Ehrlich E Plunkett B Liu X Cutting GR Wang XJ Li XD Togias A Barnes KC Malveaux F Rich S Mellen B Lange E Beaty TH;Comparative Study on the Genetics of Asthma 《Human genetics》2003,113(1):71-75
Initial genome-wide scan data provided suggestive evidence for linkage of the asthma phenotype in African-American (AA), but not Caucasian, families to chromosome 11q markers (peak at D11S1985; LOD=2). To refine this region, mapping analysis of 91 AA families (51 multiplex families and 40 asthmatic case-parent trios) was performed with an additional 17 markers flanking the initial peak linkage marker. Multipoint analyses of the 51 multiplex families yielded significant evidence of linkage with a peak non-parametric linkage score of 4.38 at marker D11S1337 (map position 68.6 cM). Furthermore, family-based association and transmission disequilibrium tests conducted on all 91 families showed significant evidence of linkage in the presence of disequilibrium for several individual markers in this region. A putative susceptibility locus was estimated to be at map position 70.8 cM with a confidence interval spanning the linkage peak. Evidence from both linkage and association analyses suggest that this region of chromosome 11 contains one or more susceptibility genes for asthma in these AA families. 相似文献
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Chinchilli VM Phillips BR Mauger DT Szefler SJ;Childhood Asthma Research Education 《Biometrical journal. Biometrische Zeitschrift》2005,47(5):644-653
The Pearson correlation coefficient and the Kendall correlation coefficient are two popular statistics for assessing the correlation between two variables in a bivariate sample. We indicate how both of these statistics are special cases of a general class of correlation statistics that is parameterized by gamma element of [0, 1]. The Pearson correlation coefficient is characterized by gamma = 1 and the Kendall correlation coefficient by gamma = 0, so they yield the upper and lower extremes of the class, respectively. The correlation coefficient characterized by gamma = 0.5 is of special interest because it only requires that first-order moments exist for the underlying bivariate distribution, whereas the Pearson correlation coefficient requires that second-order moments exist. We derive the asymptotic theory for the general class of sample correlation coefficients and then describe the use of this class of correlation statistics within the 2 x 2 crossover design. We illustrate the methodology using data from the CLIC trial of the Childhood Asthma Research and Education (CARE) Network. 相似文献
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Vincenzo?Patella Giovanni?Florio Diomira?Magliacane Ada?Giuliano Maria?Angiola?Crivellaro Daniela?Di?Bartolomeo Arturo?Genovese Mario?Palmieri Amedeo?Postiglione Erminia?Ridolo Cristina?Scaletti Maria?Teresa?Ventura Anna?Zollo Air Pollution Climate Change Task Force of the Italian Society of Allergology Asthma Clinical Immunology 《Clinical and molecular allergy : CMA》2018,16(1):20
Background
According to the World Health Organization, air pollution is closely associated with climate change and, in particular, with global warming. In addition to melting of ice and snow, rising sea level, and flooding of coastal areas, global warming is leading to a tropicalization of temperate marine ecosystems. Moreover, the effects of air pollution on airway and lung diseases are well documented as reported by the World Allergy Organization.Methods
Scientific literature was searched for studies investigating the effect of the interaction between air pollution and climate change on allergic and respiratory diseases.Results
Since 1990s, a multitude of articles and reviews have been published on this topic, with many studies confirming that the warming of our planet is caused by the “greenhouse effect” as a result of increased emission of “greenhouse” gases. Air pollution is also closely linked to global warming: the emission of hydrocarbon combustion products leads to increased concentrations of biological allergens such as pollens, generating a mixture of these particles called particulate matter (PM). The concept is that global warming is linked to the emission of hydrocarbon combustion products, since both carbon dioxide and heat increase pollen emission into the atmosphere, and all these particles make up PM10. However, the understanding of the mechanisms by which PM affects human health is still limited. Therefore, several studies are trying to determine the causes of global warming. There is also evidence that increased concentrations of air pollutants and pollens can activate inflammatory mediators in the airways. Our Task Force has prepared a Decalogue of rules addressing public administrators, which aims to limit the amount of allergenic pollen in the air without sacrificing public green areas.Conclusions
Several studies underscore the significant risks of global warming on human health due to increasing levels of air pollution. The impact of climate change on respiratory diseases appears well documented. The last decades have seen a rise in the concentrations of pollens and pollutants in the air. This rise parallels the increase in the number of people presenting with allergic symptoms (e.g., allergic rhinitis, conjunctivitis, and asthma), who often require emergency medical care. Our hope is that scientists from different disciplines will work together with institutions, pharmaceutical companies and lay organizations to limit the adverse health effects of air pollution and global warming.
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