GRF One Health Summit 2012, Davos: Presentation by Prof. Nikos Papadopoulos - Secretary General - European Academy of Allergy Clinical Immunology EAACI
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Prevention of Chronic Respiratory Diseases in Childhood and its Impact Later in Life
1. Prevention of chronic respiratory
diseases in childhood and its impact
later in life
Nikos Papadopoulos
Allergy Dpt, 2nd Pediatric Clinic,University of Athens,
EAACI Secretary General
2. The high burden of chronic respiratory
diseases (CRD)
www.who.int/respiratory/
8. Asthma starts with an infection
• In 140 children, 47 of which were hospitalized for RSV bronchiolitis.
• Asthma outcome at 7.5 years higher in cases
35
30%
30
Children
with
25
asthma
at age 20
7.5 years
15
(%)
10
5 3%
0
RSV Control
(n=47) (n=93)
Sigurs N et al. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2000;161:1501-1507
16. How can we prevent childhood
CRD?
Early pharmacological treatment
Infection control
Allergen avoidance
ETS avoidance
17. Early treatment in school-age children
12
Yearly change of FEV1 %
10
P = 0.02
8
6
4
2
0
<2 2–3 3–5 >5
Asthma duration at the beginning of therapy with budesonide
Agertoft and Pedersen, Respir Med 1994
18. Intervention effects
• No long-term effect in fluticasone-treated
children
Guilbert et al. (2006) NEJM 354:19
24. Effects of passive exposure to ETS
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Current diagnosed
Ever wheeze wheeze asthma
1.31 ** 1.21
Either parent smoking 1.53 **
Father current smoker 1.21# 1.16 1.50 *
mother current smoker 1.26 * 1.18 1.24
Active smoking during
pregnancy 1.55 ** 1.40 ** 1.56*
passive exposure to ETS
during pregnancy 1.22 # 1.31 * 1.36 #
Xepapadaki, Papadopoulos et al. Ped Allergy Immunol 2009
25. Conclusions
• Chronic respiratory diseases, including
asthma, place a high burden on public health
• Asthma, the most frequent chronic disease in
children, starts early in life, with a respiratory
infection
• Interactions between allergy and infection
lead to chronic persistent disease
26. Conclusions
• Early treatment, allergen avoidance, infection
control and environmental tobacco avoidance
may alleviate the long-term impact
• Allergen-specific immunotherapy may prevent
disease progression
27. Call for action
Public Health:
1. Facilitate allergen immunotherapy
• Awareness campaigns
• Monitoring
• Updating of National healthcare policies
2. Drastically reduce ETS exposure
Research:
3. Focus on infection-related consequences
Hinweis der Redaktion
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10-year follow-up of the PAT studyThe percentage of children with and without asthma 7 years after termination (10-year follow-up) of specific immunotherapy. Based on the patients without asthma before treatment (n = 117). The absolute number of children is shown above the bars.Background: 3-year subcutaneous specific immunotherapy (SIT) in children withseasonal allergic rhinoconjunctivitis reduced the risk of developing asthmaduring treatment and 2 years after discontinuation of SIT (5-year follow-up)indicating long-term preventive effect of SIT.Objective: We evaluated the long-term clinical effect and the preventive effect ofdeveloping asthma 7-years after termination of SIT.Methods: One hundred and forty-seven subjects, aged 16–25 years with grassand/or birch pollen allergy was investigated 10 years after initiation of a 3-yearcourse of SIT with standardized allergen extracts of grass and/or birch or no SITrespectively. Conjunctival provocations were performed outside the season andmethacholine bronchial provocations were performed during the season andwinter. Asthma was assessed by clinical evaluation.Results: The significant improvements in rhinoconjunctivitis and conjunctivalsensitivity persisted at the 10-year follow-up. Significantly less actively treatedsubjects had developed asthma at 10-year follow-up as evaluated by clinicalsymptoms [odds ratio 2.5 (1.1–5.9)]. Patients who developed asthma amongcontrols were 24/53 and in the SIT group 16/64. The longitudinal treatmenteffect when adjusted for bronchial hyper-responsiveness and asthma status atbaseline including all observations at 3, 5 and 10 years follow-up (children withor without asthma at baseline, n = 189; 511 observations) was statisticallysignificant (P = 0.0075). The odds ratio for no-asthma was 4.6 95% CI (1.5–13.7) in favor of SIT.Conclusion: A 3-year course of SIT with standardized allergen extracts hasshown long-term clinical effects and the potential of preventing developmentof asthma in children with allergic rhinoconjunctivitis up to 7 years aftertreatment.Clinical implication: Specific immunotherapy has long-term clinical effects andthe potential of preventing development of asthma in children with allergic rhinoconjunctivitis up to 7 years after treatment termination.
Background: Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is a significant risk factor for the presence and increased severity of asthma and allergy-related symptoms in children. Smoking during pregnancy has detrimental effects on asthma-associated outcomes in childhood. Whether passive exposure of pregnant women to ETS may also lead to asthma in their offspring, is not known. The aim of our study was to investigate the association of passive exposure of pregnant women to ETS and asthma and / or allergy-related symptoms in preschool children.Methods: Cross-sectional data were collected with questionnaires from 2374 preschool children, recruited from public and private nurseries and day-care centres.Results: Parental smoking was significantly associated with wheezing symptoms in their children. Mother’s active smoking during pregnancy, significantly increased the risk for occurrence of asthma symptoms and /or medically diagnosed asthma in preschool children in a dose – dependent manner. Passive exposure to ETS, mainly during the 3rd trimester of pregnancy, was significantly associated with asthma and allergy – related symptoms after adjusting for several confounders in a multivariate analysis (current wheeze: OR=1.42, 95%CI=1.06-1.91, pruritic rash ever: OR= 1.45, 95%CI= 1.01-2.08).Conclusions: Passive exposure of pregnant women to ETS during the 3rd trimester is positively associated with asthma and allergy-related symptoms in their preschool age children. Public health policies should be oriented not only towards smoking cessation but also reinforce elimination of ETS exposure of pregnant women.