Are atopy and specific IgE to mites and molds important for adult asthma?

Asthma and Sensitization Pattern in Children

“…The result of a case-control study in Finland including only cases of adult onset asthma in patients 21 -63 years of age was that specific "IgE antibodies to house dust mite and storage mite were significantly related to an incresased risk of asthma." The same correlation was found with IgE antibodies to aspergillus fumigatus and cladosporium herbarum (Jaakkola et al, 2006). Nevertheless, one has to keep in mind sensitization being only one of several possible triggers for allergic asthma and these triggers probably showing dependencies among each other.…”

Asthma: epidemiology, etiology and risk factors

“…However, new-onset asthma can occur at any age, without prior illness or concomitant disease. Atopy as a risk factor for asthma is less common with increasing age, 193 but occasionally it is the dominant trigger. Air pollution may affect adult asthma, but more often it is a factor worsening pre-existing asthma rather than a cause of incident asthma.…”

Respiratory symptoms and conditions related to occupational exposures in machine shops

“…The program controls the interview logic, branching to or skipping questions as needed according to the responses of the interviewee, and it validates the logic of the data as they are entered. The exposure part of the questionnaire was designed specifically for this study, while the part on respiratory symptoms and diseases was modified from the questionnaire used in the Finnish Environment and Asthma Study that was originally designed for studying general population samples (8,(21)(22)(23). The questionnaire inquired about personal characteristics, occupational history, use of chemicals and other agents, job tasks, preventive measures, smoking, and the occurrence of upper and lower respiratory symptoms, asthma, skin symptoms, and some general symptoms.…”