Autonomic Nervous System And Allergic Diseases: Integrative Literature Review

Assis, Elisângela Vilar de; Isidório, Ubiraídys de Andrade; Feitosa, Ankilma do Nascimento Andrade; Sousa, Milena Nunes Alves de; Silveira, Gylmara Bezerra de Menezes; Batista, Hermes Melo Teixeira; Bezerra, Ítalla Maria Pinheiro; Valenti, Vítor Engrácia; Abreu, Luíz Carlos de

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“…Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and asthma have a common pathophysiological mechanism, since the treatment of RA reduces the incidence and severity of asthma. Atopic dermatitis, even with a good prognosis, is also associated with the onset of signs and symptoms of RA and asthma 20 .…”

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Prevalence of Asthma symptoms and risk factors in adolescents

Assis¹,

Santana²,

Feitosa³

et al. 2019

J. Hum. Growth Dev.

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Introduction:Asthma is a chronic disease of the airways, which is increasing its prevalence among teenagers recently. The trigger-related factors are numerous, including environmental factors, genetic, food among others.Objective: Investigate the prevalence of asthma symptoms and possible risk factors in adolescents.Methods: This is a cross-sectional, descriptive and quantitative study conducted in 104 adolescents aged between 13 to 14 years old of both sexes from four educational institutions: three private and one public. Participants answered two questionnaires: one on risk factors for allergic diseases (EISL) and the other on asthma symptoms (ISAAC asthma module).Results: 104 adolescents answered the questionnaire: 54.8% girls and 45.2% boys. Male subjects had the most active asthma (64%) than female (20%) (p = 0.01) and also had more physician-diagnosed asthma (34.4%) than girls (6.1%) (p = 0.04), more wheezing after exercise (34.4%; 12.1%) (p = 0.03). Regarding the association between the symptoms and the risk factors we observed a statistically significant relationship between the presence of wheezing and hospitalization for public schools girls (p = 0.05). Conclusion:There is a higher prevalence of asthma symptoms in males than in females unlike other studies was observed. Why this study was made?The study was developed because the prevalence of asthma symptoms are high among adolescents and over the years other risk factors have been associated with its exacerbation. What researchers have done and found?The researchers investigated possible risk factors related to the onset of asthma symptoms in adolescents and noted that male volunteers had more active asthma than volunteers, also had more asthma diagnosed and wheezing after exercise. With regard to the association between symptoms and risk factors, a statistically significant relationship was observed between the presence of wheezing and hospitalizations for girls from public schools. What the results mean?Although the female gender suffered from hormonal changes during adolescence, it was observed that asthma symptoms were more prevalent in males. It is also worth noting that the volunteers from the public school system showed an association of risk factors with hospitalization, suggesting that the socioeconomic factor may have a greater influence on the prevalence of asthma symptoms than hormonal changes.

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Prevalence of Asthma symptoms and risk factors in adolescents

Assis¹,

Santana²,

Feitosa³

et al. 2019

J. Hum. Growth Dev.

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Increased Heart Rate Variability in Allergic and Highly Trait Anxious Individuals

Rajčáni¹,

Soláriková²,

Brezina³

2017

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Autonomic dysregulations were repeatedly observed in people with allergic reactions. Contradictory results of sympathetic over-activation on one hand and parasympathetic predominance on the other, were described for both atopic dermatitis and allergic rhinitis. Secondly, psychological traits of high anxiety and depression described in allergic patients are mostly associated with increased sympathetic and decreased vagal modulation. To address inconsistency in prior findings, we aim to study autonomic nervous system changes in allergic and highly anxious people via HR (heart rate) and HRV (heart rate variability) measures during stressful and relax days in day to day life. We further assess differences between allergic diagnoses and impact of acute symptom occurrence on HR and HRV. 61 subjects (26 allergic, 18 healthy high trait anxious and 17 healthy low trait anxious) took part in this study. They were repeatedly measured for HR by a portable electrocardiographic device, and assessed their subjectively experienced stress during everyday life. HRV was analyzed using time-domain, spectral and non-linear analyses. We observed increased HRV and decreased HR in allergic patients and also in healthy highly anxious subjects, when compared to controls. Both atopic dermatitis and allergic rhinitis patients exhibited parasympathetic predominance or sympathetic withdrawal, seen in increased HRV and lowered HR. Described effects of parasympathetic predominance were, however, not present during acute symptoms occurrence.

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Autonomic Nervous System And Allergic Diseases: Integrative Literature Review

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Prevalence of Asthma symptoms and risk factors in adolescents

Prevalence of Asthma symptoms and risk factors in adolescents

Increased Heart Rate Variability in Allergic and Highly Trait Anxious Individuals

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