Whole vs "fragmented" approach to EAACI pollen season definitions: A multicenter study in six Southern European cities

dc.authorid Yazici, Duygu/0000-0001-9094-6542
dc.authorid Mazon, Angel/0000-0001-5639-1037
dc.authorid Delgado, Luis/0000-0003-2375-9071
dc.authorid Arasi, Stefania/0000-0002-8135-0568
dc.authorid Papadopoulos, Nikolaos G./0000-0002-4448-3468
dc.authorid Fonseca, João A./0000-0002-0887-8796
dc.authorid ACAR SAHIN, AYDAN/0000-0002-5350-5534
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dc.authorwosid Yazici, Duygu/AAM-2979-2020
dc.authorwosid Mazon, Angel/ABG-8016-2020
dc.authorwosid Delgado, Luis/L-8035-2013
dc.authorwosid Arasi, Stefania/K-2858-2018
dc.authorwosid Papadopoulos, Nikolaos G./L-8670-2013
dc.authorwosid Bregu, Blerina/GRY-7196-2022
dc.authorwosid Jang, Dah Tay/E-1275-2019
dc.contributor.author Hoffmann, Tara Maria
dc.contributor.author Sahin, Aydan Acar
dc.contributor.author Aggelidis, Xenophon
dc.contributor.author Arasi, Stefania
dc.contributor.author Barbalace, Andrea
dc.contributor.author Bourgoin, Anne
dc.contributor.author Dramburg, Stephanie
dc.date.accessioned 2024-05-25T12:30:00Z
dc.date.available 2024-05-25T12:30:00Z
dc.date.issued 2020
dc.department Okan University en_US
dc.department-temp [Hoffmann, Tara Maria; Potapova, Ekaterina; Matricardi, Paolo M.; Dramburg, Stephanie] Charite Univ Med Berlin, Dept Pediat Pulmonol Immunol & Intens Care Med, Augustenburger Pl 1, D-13353 Berlin, Germany; [Sahin, Aydan Acar; Pinar, Munevver] Ankara Univ, Fac Sci, Dept Biol, Ankara, Turkey; [Aggelidis, Xenophon; Makris, Michael P.] Natl & Kapodistrian Univ Athens, Univ Hosp Attikon, Dept Dermatol & Venereol 2, Allergy Unit, Athens, Greece; [Arasi, Stefania] Bambino Gesu Childrens Res Hosp IRCCS, Dept Pediat Med, Pediat Allergol Unit, Rome, Italy; [Barbalace, Andrea; Caminiti, Lucia; Pajno, Giovanni Battista; Panasiti, Ilenia] Univ Messina, Dept Pediat, Allergy Unit, Messina, Italy; [Bourgoin, Anne; Charpin, Denis; Dimier, Claire; Pahus, Laurie; Verdier, Valentine] Aix Marseille Univ, La Timone Hosp, AP HM, Dept Pneumonol & Allergy, Marseille, France; [Bourgoin, Anne; Charpin, Denis; Dimier, Claire; Pahus, Laurie; Verdier, Valentine] Aix Marseille Univ, AP HM, Marseille, France; [Bregu, Blerina; Lame, Blerta; Mesonjesi, Eris; Priftanji, Alfred] Med Univ Tirana, Dept Allergol & Clin Immunol, UHC Mother Teresa, Tirana, Albania; [Brighetti, Maria Antonia; Travaglini, Alessandro] Tor Vergata Univ, Dept Biol, Rome, Italy; [Caeiro, Elsa] Univ Evora, MED Mediterranean Inst Agr Environm & Dev, Inst Adv Studies & Res, Evora, Portugal; [Caeiro, Elsa] Portuguese Soc Allergol & Clin Immunol, Lisbon, Portugal; [Sozmen, Sule Caglayan] Okan Univ, Dept Pediat Allergy & Immunol, Fac Med, Istanbul, Turkey; [Couto, Mariana] Jose Mello Saude, Immunoallergol, Porto, Portugal; [Delgado, Luis] Univ Porto, Fac Med, Dept Pathol, Basic & Clin Immunol Unit, Porto, Portugal; [Delgado, Luis; Fonseca, Joao A.; Pereira, Ana Margarida; Pereira, Mariana] Ctr Hlth Technol & Serv Res, CINTESIS, Bologna, Portugal; [Delgado, Luis; Fonseca, Joao A.; Pereira, Ana Margarida; Pereira, Mariana] Inst & Hosp CUF Porto, Allergy Unit, Porto, Portugal; [Businco, Andrea Di Rienzo; Sfika, Ifigenia; Tripodi, Salvatore; Villella, Valeria] Sandro Pertini Hosp, Pediat Allergy Unit, Rome, Italy; [Dimou, Maria, V] Univ Athens, Athens Gen Childrens Hosp P&A Kyriakou, Allergy Dept, Pediat Clin 2, Athens, Greece; [Fonseca, Joao A.; Papadopoulos, Nikolaos G.] Univ Porto, Fac Med, MEDCIDS Dept Community Med Informat & Hlth Sci, Porto, Portugal; [Goksel, Ozlem] Ege Univ, Fac Med, Dept Pulm Med, Div Immunol Allergy & Asthma, Izmir, Turkey; [Guvensen, Aykut] Ege Univ, Fac Sci, Dept Biol, Izmir, Turkey; [Hernandez, Dolores] Hosp La Fe, Serv Allergy, Valencia, Spain; [Hernandez, Dolores; Jang, Dah Tay; Llusar, Ruth; Mazon, Angel; Nieto, Antonio] Hlth Res Inst La Fe, Valencia, Spain; [Hernandez, Dolores; Jang, Dah Tay; Llusar, Ruth; Mazon, Angel; Nieto, Antonio] Childrens Hosp La Fe, Pediat Allergy & Pneumol Unit, Valencia, Spain; [Kalpaklioglu, Fusun] Kirikkale Univ, Dept Chest Dis, Div Immunol & Allerg Dis, Sch Med, Kirikkale, Turkey; [Ozturk, Ayse] Koc Univ Hosp, Dept Allergy & Immunol, Istanbul, Turkey; [Panetta, Valentina; Papadopoulos, Nikolaos G.] Laltrastatist Srl, Consultancy & Training, Biostat, Rome, Italy; [Panetta, Valentina; Papadopoulos, Nikolaos G.] Univ Manchester, Royal Manchester Childrens Hosp, Div Infect Immun & Resp Med, Manchester, Lancs, England; [Pellegrini, Elisabetta] ARPACal Reg Agcy Environm Protect, Dept Reggio Calabria, Messina, Italy; [Pelosi, Simone] TPS Prod Srl, Rome, Italy; [Pfaar, Oliver] Phillipps Univ, Univ Hosp Marburg, Dept Otorhinolaryngol Head & Neck Surg, Sect Rhinol & Allergy, Marburg, Germany; [Psarros, Fotis] Athens Naval Hosp, Allergy Dept, Athens, Greece; [Sackesen, Cansin] Koc Univ, Div Pediat Allergy, Sch Med, Istanbul, Turkey; [Suarez, Javier] Univ Oviedo, Dept Biol Organisms & Syst, Area Bot, Oviedo, Spain; [Thibaudon, Michel] Reseau Natl Surveillance Aerobiol, Brussieu, France; [Travaglini, Alessandro] Italian Aerobiol Assoc, Italian Aerobiol Monitoring Network, Bologna, Italy; [Tripodi, Salvatore] Policlin Casilino, Allergol Serv, Rome, Italy; [Xepapadaki, Paraskevi] Natl & Kapodistrian Univ Athens, Allergy Dept, Pediat Clin 2, Athens, Greece; [Yazici, Duygu] Koc Univ, Grad Sch Hlth Sci, KUTTAM, Cellular & Mol Med, Istanbul, Turkey en_US
dc.description Yazici, Duygu/0000-0001-9094-6542; Mazon, Angel/0000-0001-5639-1037; Delgado, Luis/0000-0003-2375-9071; Arasi, Stefania/0000-0002-8135-0568; Papadopoulos, Nikolaos G./0000-0002-4448-3468; Fonseca, João A./0000-0002-0887-8796; GOKSEL, Ozlem/0000-0003-1121-9967; Papadopoulos, Nikolaos/0000-0002-4448-3468; Pereira, Ana Margarida/0000-0002-5468-0932; PANASITI, ILENIA/0000-0003-3903-1544; Brighetti, Maria Antonia/0000-0002-4556-6468; Dramburg, Stephanie/0000-0002-9303-3260; hernandez, Dolores/0000-0001-8427-6845; Pahus, Laurie/0000-0002-5265-2874; Psarros, Fotis/0000-0002-2928-150X; Potapova, Ekaterina/0000-0003-4427-6335; Makris, Michael/0000-0003-2713-2380; AGGELIDIS, XENOFON/0000-0003-1715-3022; Jang, Dah Tay/0000-0002-3791-4389; Caeiro, Elsa/0000-0001-8717-4596; ACAR SAHIN, AYDAN/0000-0002-5350-5534 en_US
dc.description.abstract Background The adequate definition of pollen seasons is essential to facilitate a correct diagnosis, treatment choice, and outcome assessment in patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis. A position paper by the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) proposed season definitions for Northern and Middle Europe. Objective To test the pollen season definitions proposed by EAACI in six Mediterranean cities for seven pollen taxa. Methods As part of the @IT.2020 multi-center study, pollen counts for Poaceae, Oleaceae, Fagales, Cupressaceae, Urticaceae (Parietaria spp.), and Compositae (Ambrosia spp., Artemisia spp.) were collected from January 1 to December 31, 2018. Based on these data, pollen seasons were identified according to EAACI criteria. A unified monitoring period for patients in AIT trials was created and assessed for feasibility. Results The analysis revealed a great heterogeneity between the different locations in terms of pattern and length of the examined pollen seasons. Further, we found a fragmentation of pollen seasons in several segments (max. 8) separated by periods of low pollen counts (intercurrent periods). Potential monitoring periods included often many recording days with low pollen exposure (max. 341 days). Conclusion The Mediterranean climate leads to challenging pollen exposure times. Monitoring periods for AIT trials based on existing definitions may include many intermittent days with low pollen concentrations. Therefore, it is necessary to find an adapted pollen season definition as individual solution for each pollen and geographical area. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship Euroimmun [118583] en_US
dc.description.sponsorship This study was supported by a grant from Euroimmun (code 118583). We thank Ms Theresa Lipp for revising the English language. en_US
dc.identifier.citationcount 21
dc.identifier.doi 10.1111/all.14153
dc.identifier.endpage 1671 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0105-4538
dc.identifier.issn 1398-9995
dc.identifier.issue 7 en_US
dc.identifier.pmid 31833579
dc.identifier.scopus 2-s2.0-85084511104
dc.identifier.scopusquality Q1
dc.identifier.startpage 1659 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1111/all.14153
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14517/2169
dc.identifier.volume 75 en_US
dc.identifier.wos WOS:000531424800001
dc.identifier.wosquality Q1
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher Wiley en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess en_US
dc.scopus.citedbyCount 24
dc.subject EAACI en_US
dc.subject Mediterranean en_US
dc.subject pollen allergy en_US
dc.subject season definitions en_US
dc.subject seasonal allergic rhinitis en_US
dc.title Whole vs "fragmented" approach to EAACI pollen season definitions: A multicenter study in six Southern European cities en_US
dc.type Article en_US
dc.wos.citedbyCount 24

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