Multiple at-risk groups have lower lung function during the grass pollen season

N. Sabrina Idrose; Don Vicendese; E. Haydn Walters; Jennifer L. Perret; Jennifer J. Koplin; Jo A. Douglass; Rachel CA Tham; Peter Frith; Dinh S. Bui; Adrian J. Lowe; Michael J. Abramson; Gayan Bowatte; Bircan Erbas; Luke D. Knibbs; Chamara Senaratna; Caroline J. Lodge; Shyamali C. Dharmage

doi:10.1016/j.alit.2025.02.003

Multiple at-risk groups have lower lung function during the grass pollen season

N. Sabrina Idrose, Don Vicendese, E. Haydn Walters, Jennifer L. Perret, Jennifer J. Koplin, Jo A. Douglass, Rachel CA Tham, Peter Frith, Dinh S. Bui, Adrian J. Lowe, Michael J. Abramson, Gayan Bowatte, Bircan Erbas, Luke D. Knibbs, Chamara Senaratna, Caroline J. Lodge, Shyamali C. Dharmage

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The prevalence of pollen-induced health problems is expected to increase as climate change worsens. Previous research has found that adults had worse pollen-induced airway impairment compared to children. We hypothesized that different lifestyle and environmental factors and/or lung aging may explain why the different health impacts of pollen across age groups. To the best of our knowledge, no adult population-based study has assessed the relationships between ambient pollen exposure and post-bronchodilator (BD) lung function as a measure of fixed airflow obstruction, or gas transfer as a measure of parenchymal damage. Studies that investigated pre-BD lung function in adults have reported no significant changes in and out of the pollen season, but the sample sizes were small and only stratified by asthma and/or seasonal allergic rhinitis. However, there are more individual, lifestyle and environmental factors to consider that may interact with each other and pollen on lung function...

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	482-484
Number of pages	3
Journal	Allergology International
Volume	74
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alit.2025.02.003
Publication status	Published - Jul 2025

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lung function
pollen-induced health problems
at-risk groups

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Idrose, N. S., Vicendese, D., Walters, E. H., Perret, J. L., Koplin, J. J., Douglass, J. A., Tham, R. CA., Frith, P., Bui, D. S., Lowe, A. J., Abramson, M. J., Bowatte, G., Erbas, B., Knibbs, L. D., Senaratna, C., Lodge, C. J., & Dharmage, S. C. (2025). Multiple at-risk groups have lower lung function during the grass pollen season. Allergology International, 74(3), 482-484. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alit.2025.02.003

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