Allergic diseases such as allergic rhinitis (AR), allergic asthma (AAS), atopic dermatitis (AD),
food allergy (FA), and eczema are systemic diseases caused by an impaired immune …

Asthma is an inflammatory disease of the airways that may result from exposure to allergens
or other environmental irritants, resulting in bronchoconstriction, wheezing, and shortness of …

Contributing Authors Isam Alobid, MD, PhD1, Nithin D. Adappa, MD2, Henry P. Barham,
MD3, Thiago Bezerra, MD4, Nadieska Caballero, MD5, Eugene G. Chang, MD6, Gaurav …

Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a troublesome, chronic inflammatory disease that affects
over 10% of the adult population, causing decreased quality of life, lost productivity, and lost …

The methodology for EPOS2012 has been the same as for the other two productions.
Leaders in the field were invited to critically appraise the literature and write a report on a …

Background: Vitamin D deficiency has been shown to be independently associated with
increased risk of viral acute respiratory infection (ARI) in a number of observational studies …

Maintaining a normal healthy immune defense system lowers the incidence and/or the
severity of symptoms and/or the duration of common cold (CC). Physical barriers and innate …

The airway epithelium is now considered to be central to the orchestration of pulmonary
inflammatory and immune responses, and is also key to tissue remodelling. It acts as the first …

Asthma is a T lymphocyte–controlled disease of the airway wall caused by inflammation,
overproduction of mucus and airway wall remodeling leading to bronchial hyperreactivity …

The recognition that asthma is primarily an inflammatory disorder of the airways associated
with T helper type 2 (TH2) cell-dependent promotion of IgE production and recruitment of …