Ioana Agache

1 month ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Gennaro D'Amato |Allergic Diseases |Ioana Agache |Kari C. Nadeau

The Los Angeles wildfire is a critical reminder of the respiratory effects of wildfire smoke exposure. Bush, vegetation, forest, and grass fires are widely prevalent around the world, and their incidence and severity are increasing. Their cause may be deliberate or accidental in relation to global warming. Wildfires are strongly associated with the incidence of drought and heat waves, whose occurrence and intensity are accelerated by climate change [1-5].

Oct 30, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Alexandra Santos |Carmen Riggioni |Temerty Faculty |Ioana Agache

1 INTRODUCTION IgE-mediated food allergy affects up to 10% of the population, particularly the younger age groups, who are also at higher risk of nutritional deficiencies as a consequence of unsupervised and unduly prolonged avoidance diets.1-3 Conversely, young children are also the age group with more opportunities for prevention and disease-modifying treatments, as their immune response is more plastic and more amenable to immunomodulation.

Jun 23, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Ioana Agache |Marek Jutel |Cezmi A. Akdis

Planetary health and human health are interconnected.

Nov 20, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Magdalena Zemelka-Wiacek |Ioana Agache |Cezmi A. Akdis |Mübeccel Akdis

1 INTRODUCTION Allergen immunotherapy (AIT) was initially reported at the beginning of the 20th century and performed in clinical routine for more than 110 years.1 A high level of evidence for its efficacy and safety has been elaborated throughout the recent decades for various forms of application, sublingual (SLIT) and subcutaneous (SCIT), as well as oral immunotherapy (OIT), the latter being used in managing food allergies, especially peanut, cow's milk and hen's egg allergy (Table 1).2-7...

Oct 10, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Alexandra Santos |Carmen Riggioni |Ioana Agache |Cezmi A. Akdis

1 INTRODUCTION Food allergy constitutes a major public health issue with increasing prevalence having been documented in the past few decades.1 It affects about 3–10% of children and up to 10% of adults.2-4 Data from Australia reported 10% prevalence of food allergy in infants.5 A UK study reported a prevalence for food allergy of 7.1% at age 3 years in breast-fed infants.6 In a recent systematic review, the self-reported physician-diagnosed lifetime prevalence of any food allergy was 9.3%...