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Asher MI, Stewart AW, Wong G, Strachan DP, García-Marcos L, Anderson HR; the ISAAC Phase Three Study Group. Changes over time in the relationship between symptoms of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema: A global perspective from the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC). Allergol Immunopathol (Madr). 2012 Jan 30. [Epub ahead of print] View abstract
Brunekreef B, von Mutius E, Wong GK, Odhiambo JA, Clayton TO, the ISAAC Phase Three Study Group. Early life exposure to farm animals and symptoms of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema: an ISAAC Phase Three Study. Int J Epidemiol 2012; 41(3): 753-761 View abstract
Bengt Björkstén, Nadia Aït-Khaled, M Innes Asher, Tadd Clayton, Colin Robertson and the ISAAC Phase Three Study Group. Global analysis of breast feeding and risk of symptoms of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema in 6—7 year old children: ISAAC Phase Three. Allergol Immunopathol (Madr); 2011. doi:10.1016/j.aller.2011.02.005 (e-pub) View abstract
Flohr C, Nagel G, Weinmayr G, Kleiner A, Strachan DP, Williams HC and the ISAAC Phase Two Study Group. Lack of evidence for a protective effect of prolonged breastfeeding on childhood eczema: lessons from the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) Phase Two. Br J Dermatol 2011; DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2011.10588.x View abstract
Beasley RW, Clayton TO, Crane J, Lai CKW, Montefort SR, von Mutius E, Stewart AW, and the ISAAC Phase Three Study Group. Acetaminophen Use and Risk of Asthma, Rhinoconjunctivitis and Eczema in Adolescents: ISAAC Phase Three. Am J Resp Crit Care Med. 2011; 183(2): 171-178.view abstract | view editorial
ISAAC collaborator Elaine Fuertes, who has been working on rhinitis in Phase Three and Two was awarded the prize for the best poster at the August 2013 International Society for Environmental Epidemiology meeting in Basel. It was a very large meeting with over 1000 posters so this is a great achievement.
"A global analysis of associations between climate, vegetation and intermittent and persistent rhinitis prevalence" Fuertes, Butland, Anderson, Strachan, Brauer. View.
The latest ISAAC Phase Two paper shows a link between dampness in the home and impaired respiratory health in children and is a further ISAAC paper to attract editorial comment. View Editorial. | View article
This ISAAC Phase Three EQ paper, the ISAAC Cooking Fuels paper, has once again attracted editorial comment in its publishing journal, Lancet Respiratory Medicine View Editorial. Wong GWK, Brunekreef B, Ellwood P, Anderson HR, Asher MI, Crane J, Lai CKW, for the ISAAC Phase Three Study Group. Cooking fuels and prevalence of asthma: a global analysis of phase three of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC). Lancet Resp Med 2013; Epub ahead of Print View abstract
Findings consistent around the globe for 3+ weekly servings
Ellwood P, Asher MI, García-Marcos L, Williams H, Keil U, Robertson C, Nagel G and the ISAAC Phase Three Study Group. Do fast foods cause asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema? Global findings from the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) Phase Three.Thorax 2013; Online First: doi 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2012-202285
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Eating three or more weekly servings of fast food is linked to the severity of allergic asthma, eczema, and rhinitis among children—in the developed world—indicates a large international study published online in the respiratory journal Thorax.
The findings prompt the authors to suggest that a fast food diet may be contributing to the rise in these conditions, and if proved causal, could have huge implications for public health, given the popularity of these foodstuffs.read full press release
The ISAAC BMI paper, the latest Phase Three EQ paper, has attracted editorial comment in this issue of Clinical and Experimental Allergy View Editorial. Mitchell EA, Beasley R, Björkstén B, Crane J, García-Marcos L, Keil U and the ISAAC Phase Three Study Group. The association between BMI, vigorous physical activity and television viewing and the risk of symptoms of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema in children and adolescents: ISAAC Phase Three. Clin Exp Allergy. 2013; 43(1): 73–84 View abstract
The December 2012 newsletter, which is sadly the last for ISAAC, is now available on the website. We would like to thank all our collaborators for their wonderful contributions to ISAAC and the newsletters over the past years. view newsletter
The recently published Paediatric Asthma issue of the European Respiratory Society’s (ERS) quarterly book series, the European Respiratory Monograph (ERM) has been included on the ISAAC Resources Page. Read more…
ERS members can freely access the Paediatric Asthma issue online at http://erm.ersjournals.com/content/ermpa/1.toc. To purchase a print copy of the issue or to find out more about the ERM, contact monograph@ersj.org.uk
Brunekreef B, Von Mutius E, Wong G, Odhiambo J, García-Marcos L, and Foliaki S; The ISAAC Phase Three Study Group Exposure to Cats and Dogs, and Symptoms of Asthma, Rhinoconjunctivitis, and Eczema. Epidemiology 2012;23(5): 742–750 View abstract
Mitchell EA, Beasley R, Keil U, Montefort S, Odhiambo J, and the ISAAC Phase Three Study Group The association between tobacco and the risk of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema in children and adolescents: analyses from Phase Three of the ISAAC programme Thorax 2012; Epub ahead of print June 12 View abstract
This latest Phase Three EQ paper has attracted editorial comment in this issue of the International Journal of Epidemiology View Editorial. Brunekreef B, von Mutius E, Wong GK, Odhiambo JA, Clayton TO, the ISAAC Phase Three Study Group. Early life exposure to farm animals and symptoms of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema: an ISAAC Phase Three Study. Int J Epidemiol 2012; 41(3): 753-761 View abstract
The latest ISAAC Phase Two paper by Dr Carsten Flohr, published in Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, has been noted by the journal in their 'The Editor recommends' section.
Flohr C, Nagel G, Weinmayr G, Kleiner A, Williams HC, Aït-Khaled N, Strachan DP, the ISAAC Phase Two Study Group. Tuberculosis, bacillus Calmette–Guérin vaccination, and allergic disease: Findings from the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood Phase Two. Pediatric Allergy Immunology 2012: 23: 324–331.
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To start the new year, here is a short editorial by Donald Enarson about asthma just out in the IJTLD designed to get more people to pay attention to asthma in 2012. view article
Best wishes for the new year from the IIDC.
The ISAAC Programme formally finished in December 2012. The Global Asthma Network was founded in 2012 and will extend the work of ISAAC in the asthma field.
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