Prevalence and time trends of symptoms of allergic rhinitis and rhinoconjunctivitis in spanish children: Global Asthma Network (GAN) study

Date

2023

Authors

Bercedo Sanz, Alberto
Martínez-Torres, Antonela
López Silvarrey Varela, Ángel
Pellegrini Belinchón, Francisco Javier
González Díaz, Carlos
García Marcos, Luís

Director

Publisher

Codon Publications
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Artículo / Artikulua
Versión publicada / Argitaratu den bertsioa

Project identifier

  • ISCIII/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013-2016 (ISCIII)/PI17%2F00179/ES/ recolecta
  • ISCIII/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013-2016 (ISCIII)/PI17%2F00756/ES/ recolecta
  • ISCIII/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013-2016 (ISCIII)/PI17%2F00694/ES/ recolecta
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Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The time trends of the prevalence of rhinitis, rhinoconjunctivitis and nasal allergy previously described in the ISAAC (International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood) in 2002 are unknown; or if the geographical or age differences in Spain persist. OBJECTIVE: To describe the prevalence of rhinitis, rhinoconjunctivitis and nasal allergy in different Spanish geographical areas and compare them with those of the ISAAC. METHODS: Cross-sectional study of the prevalence of rhinitis, rhinoconjunctivitis and nasal allergy, carried out in 2016-2019 on 19943 adolescents aged 13-14 years and 17215 schoolchildren aged 6-7 years from six Spanish areas (Cartagena, Bilbao, Cantabria, La Coruña, Pamplona, and Salamanca), through a questionnaire based on the Global Asthma Network (GAN) protocol. RESULTS: The prevalences of recent rhinitis and rhinoconjunctivitis (last 12 months), and nasal allergy/hay fever were 35.1%, 17.6%, and 14.6% in the adolescents and 20%, 8.5%, and 8.9% in the schoolchildren, respectively, with rhinoconjunctivitis in adolescents varying from 20.9% in Bilbao to 13.4% in Cartagena; and in schoolchildren, from 9.8% in La Coruña to 6.4% in Pamplona. These prevalences of rhinoconjunctivitis and nasal allergy in adolescents were higher than those described in the ISAAC (16.3% and 13%) and similar in schoolchildren to the ISAAC (9% and 9.4%). CONCLUSIONS: There has been a stabilisation of rhinitis, rhinoconjunctivitis and nasal allergy in schoolchildren that slows the previous upward trend of ISAAC; and a slight non-significant increase in rhinoconjunctivitis and nasal allergy in adolescents. The variability found in adolescents would require local research to be better understood.

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Keywords

Adolescent, Cross-sectional Studies, Global Asthma Network, Prevalence, Rhinitis, Rhinoconjunctivitis, Schoolchild

Department

Ciencias de la Salud / Osasun Zientziak

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Bercedo-Sanz, A., Martínez-Torres, A., Varela, A. L.-S., Belinchón, F. J. P., Aguinaga-Ontoso, I., Díaz, C. G., García-Marcos, L. (2023) Prevalence and time trends of symptoms of allergic rhinitis and rhinoconjunctivitis in spanish children: Global Asthma Network (GAN) study. Allergologia et immunopathologia, 51(5), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.15586/aei.v51i1.711.

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