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Katz DSW, Zigler CM, Bhavnani D, Balcer-Whaley S, Matsui EC. Pollen and viruses contribute to spatio-temporal variation in asthma-related emergency department visits. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2024; 257:119346. [PMID: 38838752 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.119346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2024] [Revised: 05/25/2024] [Accepted: 06/03/2024] [Indexed: 06/07/2024]
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BACKGROUND Asthma exacerbations are an important cause of emergency department visits but much remains unknown about the role of environmental triggers including viruses and allergenic pollen. A better understanding of spatio-temporal variation in exposure and risk posed by viruses and pollen types could help prioritize public health interventions. OBJECTIVE Here we quantify the effects of regionally important Cupressaceae pollen, tree pollen, other pollen types, rhinovirus, seasonal coronavirus, respiratory syncytial virus, and influenza on asthma-related emergency department visits for people living near eight pollen monitoring stations in Texas. METHODS We used age stratified Poisson regression analyses to quantify the effects of allergenic pollen and viruses on asthma-related emergency department visits. RESULTS Young children (<5 years of age) had high asthma-related emergency department rates (24.1 visits/1,000,000 person-days), which were mainly attributed to viruses (51.2%). School-aged children also had high rates (20.7 visits/1,000,000 person-days), which were attributed to viruses (57.0%), Cupressaceae pollen (0.7%), and tree pollen (2.8%). Adults had lower rates (8.1 visits/1,000,000 person-days) which were attributed to viruses (25.4%), Cupressaceae pollen (0.8%), and tree pollen (2.3%). This risk was spread unevenly across space and time; for example, during peak Cuppressaceae season, this pollen accounted for 8.2% of adult emergency department visits near Austin where these plants are abundant, but 0.4% in cities like Houston where they are not; results for other age groups were similar. CONCLUSIONS Although viruses are a major contributor to asthma-related emergency department visits, airborne pollen can explain a meaningful portion of visits during peak pollen season and this risk varies over both time and space because of differences in plant composition.
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- Daniel S W Katz
- The Department of Population Health and Data Sciences, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin, United States; The School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, United States.
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- The Department of Statistics and Data Sciences, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin, United States
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- The Department of Population Health and Data Sciences, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin, United States
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- The Department of Population Health and Data Sciences, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin, United States
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- The Department of Population Health and Data Sciences, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin, United States
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Lafeber AH, de Jong RC, Bosch M, van de Lagemaat M, van Veenendaal NR, Aarnoudse-Moens CSH, Boersma B, van Goudoever JB, de Groof F. Nutritional intake and growth until two years of age in moderate and late preterms. Pediatr Res 2024:10.1038/s41390-024-03231-2. [PMID: 38769401 DOI: 10.1038/s41390-024-03231-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2023] [Revised: 04/04/2024] [Accepted: 04/09/2024] [Indexed: 05/22/2024]
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BACKGROUND AND AIM Moderate and late preterm infants (MLPTI) (gestational age 32 0/7-36 6/7 weeks), are at risk for suboptimal growth. This study evaluated adherence to nutritional recommendations until 6 months corrected age (CA), growth until 2 years CA, and associations between nutritional intake and growth until 2 years CA. METHODS We prospectively collected nutritional intakes from 100 MLPTI during the first week of life and at 6 weeks, 3 months, and 6 months CA. Anthropometry was assessed at birth, discharge, term age, and at 6 weeks, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, and 2 years CA. RESULTS On day 7, <40% reached nutritional recommendations. Thereafter, >80% reached protein recommendations until 6 months of life, but <60% reached energy recommendations. Weight z-scores increased from -0.44 at term-age to 0.59 at 3 months CA, but declined to -0.53 at 2 years CA on the TNO curves. No significant associations were found between nutritional intake and growth until 2 years CA. CONCLUSION No associations were demonstrated between nutritional intakes and growth until 2 years CA, despite not reaching recommended intakes. Despite high efforts to optimize growth, MLPTI find their own growth curve in the first 2 years of life. IMPACT This research is pioneering in identifying how nutrition influences growth in moderate and late preterm infants (MLPTI) up to 2 years corrected age (CA). MLPTI often do not meet the recommended protein and energy intake in their first week of life, suggesting that current guidelines might be too high. No association was demonstrated between nutritional intake and growth of MLPTI in the first 2 years of life. Initially, MLPTI show an increase in weight z-scores from term age up to 3 months CA but experience a decline in weight z-scores at 2 years CA, according to TNO growth charts.
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- Anne H Lafeber
- Department of Pediatrics and Neonatology, North West Clinics, Alkmaar, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatrics and Neonatology, North West Clinics, Alkmaar, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatrics and Neonatology, North West Clinics, Alkmaar, The Netherlands
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- Emma Children's Hospital Department of Pediatrics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Reproduction and Development (AR&D), Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Emma Children's Hospital Department of Pediatrics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Pediatrics and Neonatology, OLVG, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Emma Children's Hospital Department of Pediatrics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatrics and Neonatology, North West Clinics, Alkmaar, The Netherlands
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- Emma Children's Hospital Department of Pediatrics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Reproduction and Development (AR&D), Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatrics and Neonatology, North West Clinics, Alkmaar, The Netherlands.
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Picornell A, Maya-Manzano JM, Fernández-Ramos M, Hidalgo-Barquero JJ, Pecero-Casimiro R, Ruiz-Mata R, de Gálvez-Montañez E, Del Mar Trigo M, Recio M, Fernández-Rodríguez S. Effects of climate change on Platanus flowering in Western Mediterranean cities: Current trends and future projections. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 906:167800. [PMID: 37838045 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2023] [Revised: 10/10/2023] [Accepted: 10/11/2023] [Indexed: 10/16/2023]
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Ornamental trees can reduce some of the negative impacts of urbanization on citizens but some species, such as Platanus spp., produce pollen with high allergenic potential. This can exacerbate the symptomatology in allergic patients, being a public health problem. Therefore, it would be relevant to determine the environmental conditions regulating the flowering onset of the Platanus species. The aims of this study were to use aerobiological records for modelling the thermal requirements of Platanus flowering and to make future projections based on the effects that climate change could have on it under several possible future scenarios. This study was conducted in Badajoz and Malaga, two Western Mediterranean cities with different climate conditions. In the first step, several main pollen season definitions were applied to the aerobiological data and their onset dates were compared with in situ phenological observations. The main pollen season definition that best fitted the Platanus flowering onset was based on the 4th derivative of a logistic function. This definition was used as a proxy to model the thermal requirements of the Platanus flowering onset by applying the PhenoFlex statistical framework. The errors obtained by this model during the external validation were 3.2 days on average, so it was fed with future temperature estimations to determine possible future trends. According to the different models, the flowering onset of Platanus in Badajoz will show heterogeneous responses in the short and medium term due to different balances in the chilling-forcing compensation, while it will clearly delay in Malaga due to a significant delay in the chilling requirement fulfilment. This may increase the chances of cross-reactivity episodes with other pollen types in the future, increasing its impact on public health.
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- Antonio Picornell
- Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, University of Malaga, Campus de Teatinos S/N., E-29071 Malaga, Spain.
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- Department of Plant Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Extremadura, Avda. Elvas s/n, Badajoz, Spain
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- Department of Plant Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Extremadura, Avda. Elvas s/n, Badajoz, Spain
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- University Institute for Research on Water, Climate Change and Sustainability, University of Extremadura, Avda. Elvas s/n, Badajoz, Spain
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- Department of Didactics of Experimental Sciences and Mathematics, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Extremadura, Avda. Elvas s/n, Badajoz, Spain
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- Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, University of Malaga, Campus de Teatinos S/N., E-29071 Malaga, Spain
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- Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, University of Malaga, Campus de Teatinos S/N., E-29071 Malaga, Spain
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- Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, University of Malaga, Campus de Teatinos S/N., E-29071 Malaga, Spain
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- Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, University of Malaga, Campus de Teatinos S/N., E-29071 Malaga, Spain
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- Department of Construction, School of Technology, University of Extremadura, Avda. de la Universidad s/n, Caceres, Spain
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Picornell A, Rojo J, Trigo MM, Ruiz-Mata R, Lara B, Romero-Morte J, Serrano-García A, Pérez-Badia R, Gutiérrez-Bustillo M, Cervigón-Morales P, Ferencova Z, Morales-González J, Sánchez-Reyes E, Fuentes-Antón S, Sánchez-Sánchez J, Dávila I, Oteros J, Martínez-Bracero M, Galán C, García-Mozo H, Alcázar P, Fernández S, González-Alonso M, Robles E, de Zabalza AP, Ariño AH, Recio M. Environmental drivers of the seasonal exposure to airborne Alternaria spores in Spain. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 823:153596. [PMID: 35122844 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2021] [Revised: 01/12/2022] [Accepted: 01/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
Abstract
Alternaria conidia have high allergenic potential and they can trigger important respiratory diseases. Due to that and to their extensive detection period, airborne Alternaria spores are considered as a relevant airborne allergenic particle. Several studies have been developed in order to predict the human exposure to this aeroallergen and to prevent their negative effects on sensitive population. These studies revealed that some sampling locations usually have just one single Alternaria spore season while other locations generally have two seasons within the same year. However, the reasons of these two different seasonal patterns remain unclear. To understand them better, the present study was carried out in order to determine if there are any weather conditions that influence these different behaviours at different sampling locations. With this purpose, the airborne Alternaria spore concentrations of 18 sampling locations in a wide range of latitudinal, altitudinal and climate ranges of Spain were studied. The aerobiological samples were obtained by means of Hirst-Type volumetric pollen traps, and the seasonality of the airborne Alternaria spores were analysed. The optimal weather conditions for spore production were studied, and the main weather factor affecting Alternaria spore seasonality were analysed by means of random forests and regression trees. The results showed that the temperature was the most relevant variable for the Alternaria spore dispersion and it influenced both the spore integrals and their seasonality. The water availability was also a very significant variable. Warmer sampling locations generally have a longer period of Alternaria spore detection. However, the spore production declines during the summer when the temperatures are extremely warm, what splits the favourable period for Alternaria spore production and dispersion into two separate ones, detected as two Alternaria spore seasons within the same year.
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- Antonio Picornell
- Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, University of Malaga, Campus de Teatinos s/n, E-29071, Malaga, Spain.
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- Department of Pharmacology, Pharmacognosy and Botany, Faculty of Pharmacy, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain; University of Castilla-La Mancha, Institute of Environmental Sciences (Botany), Toledo, Spain
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- Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, University of Malaga, Campus de Teatinos s/n, E-29071, Malaga, Spain
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- Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, University of Malaga, Campus de Teatinos s/n, E-29071, Malaga, Spain
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- University of Castilla-La Mancha, Institute of Environmental Sciences (Botany), Toledo, Spain
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- University of Castilla-La Mancha, Institute of Environmental Sciences (Botany), Toledo, Spain
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- University of Castilla-La Mancha, Institute of Environmental Sciences (Botany), Toledo, Spain
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- University of Castilla-La Mancha, Institute of Environmental Sciences (Botany), Toledo, Spain
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- Department of Pharmacology, Pharmacognosy and Botany, Faculty of Pharmacy, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Pharmacology, Pharmacognosy and Botany, Faculty of Pharmacy, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Pharmacology, Pharmacognosy and Botany, Faculty of Pharmacy, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Vegetal Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Seville, Seville, Spain
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- Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Salamanca, Licenciado Méndez Nieto s/n, 37007, Salamanca, Spain; Institute for Agribiotechnology Research (CIALE), Universidad de Salamanca, Río Duero 12, 37185 Villamayor, Salamanca, Spain
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- Department of Mathematics and Science Education, Universidad de Salamanca, Paseo de Canalejas 169, 37008, Salamanca, Spain
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- Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Salamanca, Licenciado Méndez Nieto s/n, 37007, Salamanca, Spain; Institute for Agribiotechnology Research (CIALE), Universidad de Salamanca, Río Duero 12, 37185 Villamayor, Salamanca, Spain
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- Department of Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Salamanca, Alfonso X El Sabio s/n, 37007, Salamanca, Spain; Servicio de Alergia, Hospital Universitario de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain; Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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- Department of Botany, Ecology and Plant Physiology, Agrifood Campus of International Excellence CeiA3, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain; Andalusian Inter-University Institute for Earth System IISTA, University of Cordoba, Spain
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- Department of Botany, Ecology and Plant Physiology, Agrifood Campus of International Excellence CeiA3, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain; Andalusian Inter-University Institute for Earth System IISTA, University of Cordoba, Spain; School of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Technological University Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Botany, Ecology and Plant Physiology, Agrifood Campus of International Excellence CeiA3, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain; Andalusian Inter-University Institute for Earth System IISTA, University of Cordoba, Spain
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- Department of Botany, Ecology and Plant Physiology, Agrifood Campus of International Excellence CeiA3, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain; Andalusian Inter-University Institute for Earth System IISTA, University of Cordoba, Spain
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- Department of Botany, Ecology and Plant Physiology, Agrifood Campus of International Excellence CeiA3, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain; Andalusian Inter-University Institute for Earth System IISTA, University of Cordoba, Spain
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- Department of Construction, Polythecnic School, University of Extremadura, Extremadura, Spain
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- Department of Environmental Biology, University of Navarra, Navarra, Spain
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- Department of Environmental Biology, University of Navarra, Navarra, Spain
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- Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, University of Malaga, Campus de Teatinos s/n, E-29071, Malaga, Spain
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