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Hypersensitivity to pollen allergens on the Adriatic coast. 亚得里亚海沿岸对花粉过敏原过敏。

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Arhiv za higijenu rada i toksikologiju Pub Date : 2004-06-01

Slavica Cvitanović, Ljubo Znaor, Dubravka Perisić, Dragica Grbić

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[Current views on allergic diseases]. 【目前对过敏性疾病的看法】。

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Arhiv za higijenu rada i toksikologiju Pub Date : 2004-06-01

Bozica Kanceljak-Macan

{"title":"[Current views on allergic diseases].","authors":"Bozica Kanceljak-Macan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"Allergic diseases are an increasing health problem in the industrialised and developed countries especially in children and young adult persons. They are considered diseases of modern civilisation. The reported cumulative prevalence of allergic diseases in childhood of 25-30% includes allergic rhinoconjunctivitis, asthma and dermatitis. The reasons for this increasing prevalence are unknown. The main risk factors are genetic predisposition, allergen exposure, environmental pollutants, decreased stimulation of immune system during the critical period of development and lifestyle. Allergic diseases must be treated as common health disorder. They can express themselves in any age groups and in many different organs. IgE antibody is the main connection between involved organs. Specific IgE is still being identified using the 100 years old skin testing method and quantitative immunoenzymatic method in serum. In spite of the permanent improvement of both methods, neither skin reactivity to allergens nor measurable specific IgE necessarily mean a clinically manifested disease. The interpretation of these findings is still in the clinician's domain. Allergic diseases rarely have a fatal outcome, but have a long duration. They need a complex treatment and are a substantial individual and public socio-economic burden. Studies of factors influencing the ontogeny and maturation of the immune system in the early human development as well as studies of interaction between environment and genetic predisposition will provide a new insight in the aetiology of allergic diseases. This rewiev presents curent views on the epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, therapy and prevention of allergic diseases.","PeriodicalId":520565,"journal":{"name":"Arhiv za higijenu rada i toksikologiju","volume":" ","pages":"123-34"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2004-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40880119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Quality assurance and standardisation of patch tests for contact allergens skin testing. 接触性过敏原皮肤试验的贴片试验的质量保证和标准化。

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Arhiv za higijenu rada i toksikologiju Pub Date : 2004-06-01

Jürgen Brinkmann

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[Exposure and allergy to dust mites in general and working environment in Croatia]. [对尘螨的一般暴露和过敏以及克罗地亚的工作环境]。

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Arhiv za higijenu rada i toksikologiju Pub Date : 2004-06-01

Jelena Macan, Marko Mustac, Ante Talijancić, Slavica Cvitanović, Sanja Milković-Kraus

{"title":"[Exposure and allergy to dust mites in general and working environment in Croatia].","authors":"Jelena Macan, Marko Mustac, Ante Talijancić, Slavica Cvitanović, Sanja Milković-Kraus","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"This paper gives a review of the most important impacts of exposure to dust mites in general and working environment on human health. The Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health in Zagreb, Croatia, has been investigating the frequency and exposure levels of allergies to pyroglyphid and non-pyroglyphid mites in Croatia for the last 10 years. Investigations were performed in general urban and rural population from the inland and coastal Croatia, and several industrial inland populations occupationally exposed to organic dusts. Mite species and levels of pyroglyphid mites allergens (Der p 1, Der f 1) were established in house dust samples taken from the floors of bedrooms and living rooms and in several industrial dust samples. The frequency of allergies to pyroglyphid mites in general urban population of inland Croatia is about 20%, with significant general indoor exposure to these mites (median value for Der p 1: 0.85 microg/g of dust). General adult population of the coastal region had a significantly higher exposure to pyroglyphid mites (median value for Der p 1: 4.5 microg/g of dust), yet showed a significantly lower frequency of allergies to these mites (about 5%). New studies are necessary to investigate possible genetic and environmental factors involved in the mechanisms which protect coastal population from the development of mite allergy. Acarological and statistical analyses have shown that the high frequency of sensitisation to non-pyroglyphid mites found in the general and working populations of the inland region is not related to environmental exposure to these mites, but to the cross-reactivity between pyroglyphid and non-pyroglyphid mites and to false positive skin reactions in prick testing, particularly to T. putrescentiae. So far, results do not indicate that pyroglyphid mites are occupational allergens in paper-recycling, fish-processing and tobacco-processing.","PeriodicalId":520565,"journal":{"name":"Arhiv za higijenu rada i toksikologiju","volume":" ","pages":"183-92"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2004-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40955060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Allergy to endoprostheses. 对假体过敏。

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Arhiv za higijenu rada i toksikologiju Pub Date : 2004-06-01

Visnja Milavec-Puretić

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Organic aerosols and the development of allergic disorders. 有机气溶胶与过敏性疾病的发展。

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Arhiv za higijenu rada i toksikologiju Pub Date : 2004-06-01

Bozica Kanceljak-Macan, Eugenija Zuskin, Jelena Macan

{"title":"Organic aerosols and the development of allergic disorders.","authors":"Bozica Kanceljak-Macan, Eugenija Zuskin, Jelena Macan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study was to investigate skin reactivity to organic dust extracts and total serum IgE and their relation to the prevalence of respiratory symptoms and ventilatory capacity in workers occupationally exposed to organic aerosols. It included workers employed in processing coffee, tea, dried fruits, spices, animal food, soy, hemp, cotton, swine farmers, and control groups of workers non-exposed to organic dust. All underwent a skin prick test (SPT) with water extracts of organic dust 1:10 w/v, Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus, mixed moulds, bacteria, histamin solution (1 mg/ml) and buffer solution. SPT was considered positive if the diameter of the observed wheal was 3 mm greater than that of buffer solution. The total IgE was measured by the PRIST method (Pharmacia Diagnostics AB, Upsala) and the values > 125 kU/L were considered increased. Data on respiratory symptoms were collected by standardized questionnaire. Ventilatory capacity was measured by recording MEFV curve. Airborne industrial dust were measured as total and respirable fraction. The exposed workers had a greater prevalence of positive SPT to organic dust extracts, except in soy processing. Increased IgE was found in workers processing coffee, tea, hemp, cotton and animal food, compared to non-exposed workers (P<0.05). Workers with positive SPT had a significantly higher total IgE. As there was no correlation between acute and chronic changes in ventilatory function, positive SPT, and level of total IgE, our findings could not predict objective respiratory impairment.","PeriodicalId":520565,"journal":{"name":"Arhiv za higijenu rada i toksikologiju","volume":" ","pages":"213-20"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2004-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40881347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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[ARIA--one airway, one disease: what links our research to the concept?]. [ARIA——一种气道，一种疾病:我们的研究与这个概念有什么联系?]

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Arhiv za higijenu rada i toksikologiju Pub Date : 2004-06-01

Davor Plavec

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[Stress and allergy]. [压力和过敏]。

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Arhiv za higijenu rada i toksikologiju Pub Date : 2004-06-01

Biserka Radosević-Vidacek, Jelena Macan, Adrijana Kosćec

{"title":"[Stress and allergy].","authors":"Biserka Radosević-Vidacek, Jelena Macan, Adrijana Kosćec","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"Stress is one of the components in the complex interaction of environmental, genetic, physiological, psychological, behavioural and social factors that can influence the body's ability to remain healthy or become healthy, to resist or overcome a disease. Stress can alter neuroendocrine and immune mechanisms of health and disease through various psychosocial processes. In addition, it can affect health through the impact on health-impairing behaviours and on compliance with medical regimens. At the same time, the relationship between stress and health is not unidirectional but bi-directional. Current views on the relation between stress and allergy vary from the denial of any relationship that could fundamentally help in allergy treatment to the widespread opinion that psychological stress can exacerbate some skin symptoms and precipitate asthma. The role of stress in the genesis, incidence and symptomatology of allergy still remains a controversial issue since the mechanisms of that relationship are not well understood. Starting from the biopsychosocial model of disease, we introduced the Social Readjustment Rating Scale which measures stressful life events, and the WHOQOL-BREF which measures subjective quality of life, into an extensive multidisciplinary study of immunotoxic effects of indoor bioaerosols and lifestyle. This paper describes the characteristics of those two questionnaires and discusses the relationship between stress and various domains of the quality of life. The Social Readjustment Rating Scale proved to be a reliable predictor for quality of life in the domains of physical health and environment. Future analyses will examine the role of stress and subjective quality of life in allergy.","PeriodicalId":520565,"journal":{"name":"Arhiv za higijenu rada i toksikologiju","volume":" ","pages":"205-11"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2004-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40881346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Exercise and allergic diseases. 运动和过敏性疾病。

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Arhiv za higijenu rada i toksikologiju Pub Date : 2004-06-01

Tajana Klepac-Pulanić, Jelena Macan, Davor Plavec, Bozica Kanceljak-Macan

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[Ragweed hypersensitivity in Osijek-Baranja region]. [奥西耶克-巴拉尼亚地区豚草过敏]。

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Arhiv za higijenu rada i toksikologiju Pub Date : 2004-06-01

Visnja Prus, Zdenka Culjak

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