Allergic rhinitis epidemiology

Schoenwetter WF. 2000. Allergic rhinitis Epidemiology and natural history. Allergy Asthma Proc. 21 1-6. 

The large body of epidemiological studies have clearly shown that allergic rhinitis and asthma are frequent diseases, and that both diseases obviously still increase in prevalence [4, 5]. However, without any doubt, there is a direct link between rhinitis and asthma. Several studies in a large number of patients have clearly shown that rhinitis sufferers have a 3- to 7-fold increased risk to also develop asthma within 7 years compared to normal controls. Most of this development actually lies in the early years of childhood, as was recently shown in the MAS and PAT studies [6, 7], In the first study, 5-year-old children sensitized to pollen with allergic rhinitis symptoms developed asthma within 2 years... 

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