Bibliographic record
Abstract
Summary In studies conducted since the epidemic of allergic disorders began, at least 40% of young patients with allergic rhinitis have been found to have concurrent asthma, and up to 100% of young patients with allergic asthma have been found to have concurrent allergic rhinitis. Many patients with occupational or nonsteroidal anti‐inflammatory drug‐induced asthma also have concurrent allergic rhinitis. In addition to being associated epidemiologically (occurring in patients with similar genetic background and triggered by similar provoking factors), allergic rhinitis and asthma are associated anatomically, physiologically, immunopathologically, and by their response to therapeutic interventions. Anatomically, both the upper and the lower airways are lined with ciliated columnar epithelium containing mucus‐secreting goblet cells. Physiologically, they are connected not only by the nasobronchial reflex, but also by the adverse effects on the lower airways produced when nasal congestion results in mouth breathing and loss of nasal air‐conditioning (warming, humidification, and filtration of inspired air). The underlying immunopathological process is similar in allergic rhinitis and asthma. It involves not only the immediate hypersensitivity (Type I) allergic response, but also persistent allergic inflammation (the Type IVa 2 response in the revised Gell and Coombs classification). In addition, the systemic immunologic response to intranasal or orally‐inhaled allergens is similar in allergic rhinitis and asthma. Down‐regulation of allergic inflammation by allergen avoidance, allergen‐specific immunotherapy, and medications such as H 1 ‐antihistamines, leukotriene modifiers, intranasal/inhaled glucocorticoids or novel immunomodulators such as anti‐IgE is the key to managing both disorders. ‘Combined allergic rhinitis/asthma syndrome’, ‘allergic rhinobronchitis’, ‘the united airways’, ‘one airway, one disease’, and other phrases in current usage lead to increased awareness that persistent allergic inflammation occurs throughout the upper and lower airways of patients with concurrent allergic rhinitis and asthma. Terms involving the words ‘allergic’ or ‘asthma’ are preferable to nonspecific terms such as ‘united airways’ or ‘one airway, one disease’. Additional studies of the immunopathophysiological processes that link the upper and lower airways are needed.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".