Is the global rise of asthma an early impact of anthropogenic climate change?

Beggs, Paul J.; Bambrick, Hilary

doi:10.1590/s1413-81232006000300022

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“…Stronger allergenicity is observed in the pollen from trees grown at increased temperatures or in polluted areas (745)(746)(747)(748). Climate changes are blamed for the increase in allergic diseases (738,749). …”

Section: Pollutantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) 2008*

Bousquet¹,

Khaltaev²,

Cruz³

et al. 2008

Allergy

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Section: Pollutantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) 2008*

Bousquet¹,

Khaltaev²,

Cruz³

et al. 2008

Allergy

3,726

1,745

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“…The increase in incidence, prevalence, morbidity, and economic burden of noncommunicable respiratory diseases such as asthma over recent decades presents a significant challenge to public health (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8). Approximately 300 million people worldwide currently have asthma (8).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effect of Indoor Air Pollution from Biomass and Solid Fuel Combustion on Prevalence of Self-Reported Asthma among Adult Men and Women in India: Findings from a Nationwide Large-Scale Cross-Sectional Survey

Agrawal

2012

Journal of Asthma

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Objectives-Increasing prevalence of asthma in developing countries has been a significant challenge for public health in recent decades. A number of studies have suggested that ambient air pollution can trigger asthma attacks. Biomass and solid fuels are a major source of indoor air pollution, but in developing countries the health effects of indoor air pollution are poorly understood. In this study we examined the effect of cooking smoke produced by biomass and solid fuel combustion on the reported prevalence of asthma among adult men and women in India.Methods-The analysis is based on 99,574 women and 56,742 men aged between 20 and 49 years included in India's third National Family Health Survey conducted in [2005][2006]. Effects of exposure to cooking smoke, determined by the type of fuel used for cooking such as biomass and solid fuels versus cleaner fuels, on the reported prevalence of asthma were estimated using multivariate logistic regression. Since the effects of cooking smoke are likely to be confounded with effects of tobacco smoking, age, and other such factors, the analysis was carried out after statistically controlling for such factors.Results-The results indicate that adult women living in households using biomass and solid fuels have a significantly higher risk of asthma than those living in households using cleaner fuels (OR: 1.26; 95%CI: 1.06-1.49; p = .010), even after controlling for the effects of a number of potentially confounding factors. Interestingly, this effect was not found among men (OR: 0.98; 95%CI: 0.77-1.24; p = .846). However, tobacco smoking was associated with higher asthma prevalence among both women (OR: 1.72; 95%CI: 1.34-2.21; p < .0001) and men (OR: 1.35; 95%CI: 1.49-2.25; p < .0001). Combined effects of biomass and solid fuel use and tobacco smoke on the risk of asthma were greater and more significant in women (OR: 2.16; 95%CI: 1.58-2.94; p < .0001) than they were in men (OR: 1.34; 95%CI: 1.04-1.72; p = .024). Conclusions-The Europe PMC Funders Group

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“…Warmer conditions are also likely to lead to increases in allergens that then increase incidence of asthma, in part because species produce more pollen and in part because the types of weeds that are problematic are likely to be favored. 143 Higher winter temperatures and a longer warm season are likely to allow greater survival and reproduction of insects and other disease vectors. With a capable public health system, thoughtful community design, strict building standards, and limited standing water, infectious vector-borne disease has been essentially eliminated from the United States, even where some vectors (e.g., types of mosquitoes) survive.…”

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Prospects for Future Climate Change and the Reasons for Early Action

MacCracken

2008

Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association

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Combustion of coal, oil, and natural gas, and to a lesser extent deforestation, land-cover change, and emissions of halocarbons and other greenhouse gases, are rapidly increasing the atmospheric concentrations of climate-warming gases. The warming of approximately 0.1-0.2°C per decade that has resulted is very likely the primary cause of the increasing loss of snow cover and Arctic sea ice, of more frequent occurrence of very heavy precipitation, of rising sea level, and of shifts in the natural ranges of plants and animals. The global average temperature is already approximately 0.8°C above its preindustrial level, and present atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases will contribute to further warming of 0.5-1°C as equilibrium is re-established. Warming has been and will be greater in mid and high latitudes compared with low latitudes, over land compared with oceans, and at night compared with day. As emissions continue to increase, both warming and the commitment to future warming are presently increasing at a rate of approximately 0.2°C per decade, with projections that the rate of warming will further increase if emission controls are not put in place. Such warming and the associated changes are likely to result in severe impacts on key societal and environmental support systems. Present estimates are that limiting the increase in global average surface temperature to no more than 2-2.5°C above its 1750 value of approximately 15°C will be required to avoid the most catastrophic, but certainly not all, consequences of climate change. Accomplishing this will require reducing emissions sharply by 2050 and to near zero by 2100. This can only be achieved if: (1) developed nations move rapidly to demonstrate that a modern society can function without reliance on technologies that release carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other non-CO 2 greenhouse gases to the atmosphere; and (2) if developing nations act in the near-term to sharply limit their non-CO 2 emissions while minimizing growth in CO 2 emissions, and then in the long-term join with the developed nations to reduce all emissions as cost-effective technologies are developed.

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Is the global rise of asthma an early impact of anthropogenic climate change?

Cited by 40 publications

References 53 publications

Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) 2008*

Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) 2008*

Effect of Indoor Air Pollution from Biomass and Solid Fuel Combustion on Prevalence of Self-Reported Asthma among Adult Men and Women in India: Findings from a Nationwide Large-Scale Cross-Sectional Survey

Prospects for Future Climate Change and the Reasons for Early Action

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