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2009-01-21Zeitschriftenartikel DOI: 10.2174/1874838400902010001
Correlations Between Allergic and Infectious Diseases – Results of the Latest German National Health Survey (NHS98) and the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS)
dc.contributor.authorLangen, Ute
dc.contributor.authorRöhme, J.
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-07T18:45:48Z
dc.date.available2018-05-07T18:45:48Z
dc.date.created2015-12-21
dc.date.issued2009-01-21none
dc.identifier.otherhttp://edoc.rki.de/oa/articles/revG7iQTntzAI/PDF/28IEzs7e4CQQ.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://edoc.rki.de/176904/2229
dc.description.abstractIn the literature, according to the hygiene hypothesis, infections should be expected to correlate with fewer allergies. However, several studies clearly show that infections – especially infections of the upper respiratory tract – and surrogate parameters such as the use of antibiotics or paracetamol correlate with a higher rate of allergies. This article reviews the literature (50 articles are analyzed) on possible connections between infections and allergies and offers some possible explanations. Original data from population-based health interviews and examination surveys of adults, children and adolescents are added. These data show a clear correlation between most infections and an enhanced allergy rate. Nevertheless, although the correlastions obtained seem intriguing, it has to be kept in mind, that no clear direction of the correlations can be stated since the database does not allow for such interpretation. So, the data do not necessarily add to the picture of the hygiene hypothesis, as the infections could have followed the allergies. The probability of suffering from an allergy rises with the number of infections (or vice versa) a person has had (e.g. the risk for adults of developing asthma is enhanced to 1.3 CI-95% 1.2-1.4 with enhanced numbers of former infections with pertussis, chickenpox, scarlet fever, dysentery or typhoid/paratyphoid). This applies especially to pertussis (e.g. 15.8% CI-95% 13.6-18.3% of children with hayfever had pertussis versus 7.6% CI-95% 6.9-8.3% of the healthy children) and chickenpox infections (e.g. 84.7% CI-95% 82.7-86.6% of children with hayfever had chickenpox versus 66.8% CI-95% 65.8-67.8% of the healthy children), both of which are preventable by vaccination.eng
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRobert Koch-Institut, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsberichterstattung
dc.subject.ddc610 Medizin
dc.titleCorrelations Between Allergic and Infectious Diseases – Results of the Latest German National Health Survey (NHS98) and the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS)
dc.typeperiodicalPart
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:0257-10042519
dc.identifier.doi10.2174/1874838400902010001
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25646/2154
local.edoc.container-titleThe Open Allergy Journal
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local.edoc.container-typeperiodical
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local.edoc.container-urlhttp://benthamopen.com/ABSTRACT/TOALLJ-2-1
local.edoc.container-publisher-nameBentham Open
local.edoc.container-volume2
local.edoc.container-year2009

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