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What's in a name? The allergic rhinitis–asthma connection

2003· article· en· W2096404031 on OpenAlexaff
F. Estelle R. Simons

Bibliographic record

VenueClinical & Experimental Allergy Reviews · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicAllergic Rhinitis and Sensitization
Canadian institutionsUniversity of ManitobaHealth Sciences Centre
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineAsthmaImmunologyAllergic inflammationAllergyAllergic responseNasal administrationAllergenDesensitization (medicine)Immunoglobulin EInternal medicineAntibodyReceptor

Abstract

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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 IVa2 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 H1‐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

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.042

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.003
Scholarly communication0.0030.005
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0040.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0120.003

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.

Opus teacher head0.080
GPT teacher head0.385
Teacher spread0.305 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

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".

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