Climate Change and Allergic Diseases: A scoping review - 09/10/24

Doi : 10.1016/j.joclim.2024.100350

Ioana Agache ¹, Cezmi Akdis ^2,³, Mubeccel Akdis ², Ali Al-Hemoud ⁴, Isabella Annesi-Maesano ⁵, John Balmes ^6a,^6b, Lorenzo Cecchi ^7a,^7b, Athanasios Damialis ⁸, Tari Haahtela ⁹, Adam L. Haber ¹⁰, Jaime E. Hart ^10,¹¹, Marek Jutel ¹², Yasutaka Mitamura ², Blandina T. Mmbaga ¹³, Jae-Won Oh ¹⁴, Abbas Ostadtaghizadeh ¹⁵, Ruby Pawankar ¹⁶, Mary Johnson ¹⁰, Harald Renz ^17a,^17b,^17c, Mary B. Rice ¹⁸, Nelson Augusto Rosario Filho ¹⁹, Vanitha Sampath ¹⁰, Chrysanthi Skevaki ²⁰, Francis Thien ²¹, Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann ^22,^23,²⁴, Gary W.K. Wong ²⁵, Kari C. Nadeau ^10,^⁎
¹ Transylvania University, Brasov, Romania
² Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University of Zurich, Davos, Switzerland
³ Christine Kühne-Center for Allergy Research and Education, Davos, Switzerland
⁴ Environment and Life Sciences Research Center, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Safat, Kuwait
⁵ Institute Desbrest of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Montpellier and INSERM, Montpellier, France
^6a Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
^6b School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
^7a Centre of Bioclimatology, University of Florence, Italy
^7b SOS Allergy and Clinical Immunology, USL Toscana Centro, Prato, Italy
⁸ Terrestrial Ecology and Climate Change, Department of Ecology, School of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
⁹ Skin and Allergy Hospital, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
¹⁰ Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
¹¹ Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
¹² Department of Clinical Immunology, ALL-MED Medical Research Institute, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland
¹³ Department of Pediatrics, Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre and Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College, Moshi, Tanzania
¹⁴ Department of pediatrics, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
¹⁵ Climate Change and Health Research Center (CCHRC), Institute for Environmental Research (IER) and Department of Health in Emergencies and Disasters, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
¹⁶ Department of Pediatrics, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo
^17a Institute of Laboratory Medicine, member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL) and the Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
^17b Department of Clinical Immunology and Allergology, Laboratory of Immunopathology, Sechenov University, Moscow, Russia
^17c Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College (KCMUCo), Moshi, Tanzania
¹⁸ Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
¹⁹ Federal University of Parana, Brazil
²⁰ Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Philipps Universität Marburg, German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Marburg, Germany
²¹ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Eastern Health & Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
²² Environmental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Augsburg, Germany
²³ Institute of environmental medicine, Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Augsburg, Germany
²⁴ CK CARE, Christine Kühne Center for Allergy Research and Education, Davos, Switzerland
²⁵ Department of Pediatrics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

^⁎Corresponding Author: Kari C. Nadeau, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Building 1, 665 Huntington Ave, Boston MA 02115; Phone: 650-867-4592Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthBuilding 1, 665 Huntington AveBostonMA02115

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Abstract

Introduction

Increased greenhouse gas emissions since the industrial age have led to higher global temperatures and frequency and severity of climate events, such as heat waves, wildfires, floods, and storms. These changes are adversely affecting human health and increasing disease risk, including risk of allergic diseases. Further understanding of the environmental factors and the cellular and molecular mechanisms mediating these increases can assist in developing strategies to adapt to and mitigate climate change.

Materials and Methods

We conducted a scoping review of the literature from 2010 through 2024 using PubMed and Scopus.

Results

Thunderstorms, dust storms, wildfires, and other climate change factors increase allergies both directly and indirectly through increases in particulate matter, pollen, migration of disease vectors and decreases in biodiversity. The epithelial barrier, hygiene, “old friends,” and biodiversity hypotheses have been put forward to explain the underlying mechanism mediating these increases.

Conclusion

There is an urgent need to reduce the use of fossil fuels to mitigate climate change and protect planetary and human health. While international accords such as the 2015 Paris Agreement have been signed with the aim of lowering greenhouse gases and limiting future global temperature increases, it is clear that increased efforts are needed to meet these goals. Evidence-based solutions for adapting to the increased prevalence of allergic diseases and cost-benefit analysis of current mitigation strategies for lowering allergic diseases are also needed.

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Keywords : Air pollution, allergy, asthma, biodiversity, climate change, global warming, mitigation, pollen