Loftborið bráðaofnæmi á Mið-Norðurlandi
Neðst á síðunni er hægt að nálgast greinina í heild sinni með því að smella á hlekkinn View/Open Objective: To investigate main causes of airborne immediate allergy in a region of one primary health care center with about 17,000 inhabitants in the northern part of Iceland, both in general and with s...
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ftlandspitaliuni:oai:www.hirsla.lsh.is:2336/48338 2023-05-15T16:46:08+02:00 Loftborið bráðaofnæmi á Mið-Norðurlandi Airborne immediate allergy in Mid-North Iceland Magnús Ólafsson Davíð Gíslason 2009-02-02 http://hdl.handle.net/2336/48338 is ice Læknafélag Íslands, Læknafélag Reykjavíkur http://www.laeknabladid.is Læknablaðið 1998, 84(12):928-34 0023-7213 http://hdl.handle.net/2336/48338 Læknablaðið Bráðaofnæmi Ofnæmi Hypersensitivity Immediate Environmental Exposure Air Pollutants Iceland Article 2009 ftlandspitaliuni 2022-05-29T08:21:16Z Neðst á síðunni er hægt að nálgast greinina í heild sinni með því að smella á hlekkinn View/Open Objective: To investigate main causes of airborne immediate allergy in a region of one primary health care center with about 17,000 inhabitants in the northern part of Iceland, both in general and with special reference to diagnoses. Material and methods: Totally 600 individuals with symptoms indicating airborne immediate allergy were investigated under the periode 1988-1995. Skin prick test (SPT) was used in a standardized way and with standardized solutions. Histamine 10 mg/ml was used as a positive control and positive results were defined as at least half as big as the histamine reaction. Results: 47% of investigated individuals had positive SPT. Grass gave most often positive response and animal dander from cat were in the second place. The allergy symptoms start in more than half of the cases under the age of 16. House dust mites allergy are confirmed in only about 10% of the cases. Mean age of patients who came to the health care center with allergy is 23±13 years and 34±17 years of those without allergy and the difference is significant in both sexes (p<0.001). When patients with grass pollen allergy are divided into two groups, those with and those without a family history (parents or siblings) of allergy, it is evident that those with a family history get their allergic disease significantly earlier in life than those without a family history (p<0.01). Conclusions: Immediate airborne allergy is, as is quite well known, mostly a disease of children and young people. By far the most common cause in Mid-North Iceland is grasspollen as in South-West Iceland. Birch pollen is more common in the northern part, probably because of a different vegetation. Age distribution in the whole group without regard to diagnosis is the same as in South-West Iceland where patients with chronic rhinitis were investigated. Storage mite Lepidoglyphus destructor is often positive in those working with hay and it should be ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Mite Hirsla - Landspítali University Hospital research archive Smella ENVELOPE(29.443,29.443,69.896,69.896) |
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Neðst á síðunni er hægt að nálgast greinina í heild sinni með því að smella á hlekkinn View/Open Objective: To investigate main causes of airborne immediate allergy in a region of one primary health care center with about 17,000 inhabitants in the northern part of Iceland, both in general and with special reference to diagnoses. Material and methods: Totally 600 individuals with symptoms indicating airborne immediate allergy were investigated under the periode 1988-1995. Skin prick test (SPT) was used in a standardized way and with standardized solutions. Histamine 10 mg/ml was used as a positive control and positive results were defined as at least half as big as the histamine reaction. Results: 47% of investigated individuals had positive SPT. Grass gave most often positive response and animal dander from cat were in the second place. The allergy symptoms start in more than half of the cases under the age of 16. House dust mites allergy are confirmed in only about 10% of the cases. Mean age of patients who came to the health care center with allergy is 23±13 years and 34±17 years of those without allergy and the difference is significant in both sexes (p<0.001). When patients with grass pollen allergy are divided into two groups, those with and those without a family history (parents or siblings) of allergy, it is evident that those with a family history get their allergic disease significantly earlier in life than those without a family history (p<0.01). Conclusions: Immediate airborne allergy is, as is quite well known, mostly a disease of children and young people. By far the most common cause in Mid-North Iceland is grasspollen as in South-West Iceland. Birch pollen is more common in the northern part, probably because of a different vegetation. Age distribution in the whole group without regard to diagnosis is the same as in South-West Iceland where patients with chronic rhinitis were investigated. Storage mite Lepidoglyphus destructor is often positive in those working with hay and it should be ... |
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Loftborið bráðaofnæmi á Mið-Norðurlandi |
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Loftborið bráðaofnæmi á Mið-Norðurlandi |
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Loftborið bráðaofnæmi á Mið-Norðurlandi |
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Loftborið bráðaofnæmi á Mið-Norðurlandi |
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Loftborið bráðaofnæmi á Mið-Norðurlandi |
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