Environmental degradation and the increasing burden of allergic disease: The need to determine the impact of nitrogen pollution

Tobias Ceulemans; Paulien Verscheure; Caroline Shadouh; Kasper Van Acker; Brecht Devleesschauwer; Catherine Linard; Nicolas Dendoncker; Niko Speybroeck; Nicolas Bruffaerts; Olivier Honnay; Rik Schrijvers; Raf Aerts

doi:10.3389/falgy.2023.1063982

Environmental degradation and the increasing burden of allergic disease: The need to determine the impact of nitrogen pollution

Front Allergy. 2023 Feb 2:4:1063982. doi: 10.3389/falgy.2023.1063982. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department Biology, UAntwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.
² Division Ecology, Evolution, and Biodiversity Conservation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
³ KU Leuven Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Allergy and Clinical Immunology Research Group, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁴ Institut de Recherche Santé et Societé, UC Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
⁵ Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.
⁶ Department of Translational Physiology, Infectiology, and Public Health, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium.
⁷ Department of Geography, University of Namur, Namur, Belgium.
⁸ Mycology and Aerobiology, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.
⁹ Risk and Health Impact Assessment, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.

No abstract available

Keywords: allergic disease; biodiversity loss; environmental degradation; environmental pollution (including CO2 and SO2 emissions); epidemiology; nitrogen deposition; pollen allergy; respiratory health.

Grants and funding

The authors acknowledge funding of the NITROPOL-BE project (B2/212/P1/NITROPOL-BE, coordinated by RA) by the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO) in the framework of Belgian Research Action through Interdisciplinary Networks (BRAIN-be 2.0). RS is supported by a FWO senior clinical investigator fellowship (1805518N). Funders had no role in the design and preparation of the manuscript.