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An Overview of Environmental Risk Factors for Food Allergy
IgE-mediated food allergy is an increasing public health concern in many regions around the world. Although genetics play a role in the development of food allergy, the reported increase has occurred largely within a single generation and therefore it is unlikely that this can be accounted for by ch...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8776075/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35055544 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19020722 |
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author | Peters, Rachel L. Mavoa, Suzanne Koplin, Jennifer J. |
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description | IgE-mediated food allergy is an increasing public health concern in many regions around the world. Although genetics play a role in the development of food allergy, the reported increase has occurred largely within a single generation and therefore it is unlikely that this can be accounted for by changes in the human genome. Environmental factors must play a key role. While there is strong evidence to support the early introduction of allergenic solids to prevent food allergy, this is unlikely to be sufficient to prevent all food allergy. The purpose of this review is to summarize the evidence on risk factors for food allergy with a focus the outdoor physical environment. We discuss emerging evidence of mechanisms that could explain a role for vitamin D, air pollution, environmental greenness, and pollen exposure in the development of food allergy. We also describe the recent extension of the dual allergen exposure hypothesis to potentially include the respiratory epithelial barrier in addition to the skin. Few existing studies have examined the relationship between these environmental factors with objective measures of IgE-mediated food allergy and further research in this area is needed. Future research also needs to consider the complex interplay between multiple environmental factors. |
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spelling | pubmed-87760752022-01-21 An Overview of Environmental Risk Factors for Food Allergy Peters, Rachel L. Mavoa, Suzanne Koplin, Jennifer J. Int J Environ Res Public Health Review IgE-mediated food allergy is an increasing public health concern in many regions around the world. Although genetics play a role in the development of food allergy, the reported increase has occurred largely within a single generation and therefore it is unlikely that this can be accounted for by changes in the human genome. Environmental factors must play a key role. While there is strong evidence to support the early introduction of allergenic solids to prevent food allergy, this is unlikely to be sufficient to prevent all food allergy. The purpose of this review is to summarize the evidence on risk factors for food allergy with a focus the outdoor physical environment. We discuss emerging evidence of mechanisms that could explain a role for vitamin D, air pollution, environmental greenness, and pollen exposure in the development of food allergy. We also describe the recent extension of the dual allergen exposure hypothesis to potentially include the respiratory epithelial barrier in addition to the skin. Few existing studies have examined the relationship between these environmental factors with objective measures of IgE-mediated food allergy and further research in this area is needed. Future research also needs to consider the complex interplay between multiple environmental factors. MDPI 2022-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8776075/ /pubmed/35055544 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19020722 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Peters, Rachel L. Mavoa, Suzanne Koplin, Jennifer J. An Overview of Environmental Risk Factors for Food Allergy |
title | An Overview of Environmental Risk Factors for Food Allergy |
title_full | An Overview of Environmental Risk Factors for Food Allergy |
title_fullStr | An Overview of Environmental Risk Factors for Food Allergy |
title_full_unstemmed | An Overview of Environmental Risk Factors for Food Allergy |
title_short | An Overview of Environmental Risk Factors for Food Allergy |
title_sort | overview of environmental risk factors for food allergy |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8776075/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35055544 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19020722 |
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