
2013 43(1): 73–84 View abstract Latest ISAAC Newsletter The association between BMI, vigorous physical activity and television viewing and the risk of symptoms of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema in children and adolescents: ISAAC Phase Three. Mitchell EA, Beasley R, Björkstén B, Crane J, García-Marcos L, Keil U and the ISAAC Phase Three Study Group. The ISAAC BMI paper, the latest Phase Three EQ paper, has attracted editorial comment in this issue of Clinical and Experimental Allergy View Editorial. Thorax 2013 Online First: doi 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2012-202285Įating three or more weekly servings of fast food is linked to the severity of allergic asthma, eczema, and rhinitis among children-in the developed world-indicates the latest Phase Three paper published online in the respiratory journal Thorax. Do fast foods cause asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema? Global findings from the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) Phase Three. Lancet Resp Med 2013 Epub ahead of Print View abstract ISAAC Diet paper published Fast food diet linked to asthma and eczema severity in kidsįindings consistent around the globe for 3+ weekly servingsĮllwood P, Asher MI, García-Marcos L, Williams H, Keil U, Robertson C, Nagel G and the ISAAC Phase Three Study Group. Cooking fuels and prevalence of asthma: a global analysis of phase three of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC). Wong GWK, Brunekreef B, Ellwood P, Anderson HR, Asher MI, Crane J, Lai CKW, for the ISAAC Phase Three Study Group. This ISAAC Phase Three EQ paper, ISAAC Cooking Fuels, has once again attracted editorial comment in its publishing journal, Lancet Respiratory Medicine View Editorial. | View article ISAAC Cooking Fuels paper published The latest ISAAC paper shows a link between dampness in the home and impaired respiratory health in children and is a further ISAAC paper to attract editorial comment. ISAAC collaborator Elaine Fuertes was awarded the prize for the best poster at the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology meeting in Basel. Further population studies are urgently needed to discover more about the underlying mechanisms of non-allergic causes of asthma, rhinitis and eczema and the burden of these conditions.ġ9 August 1965 - 11 February 2015 ISAAC collaborator awarded best poster prize The ISAAC findings have shown that these diseases are increasing in developing countries and that they have little to do with allergy, especially in the developing world. ISAAC has become the largest worldwide collaborative research project ever undertaken, involving more than 100 countries and nearly 2 million children and its aim is to develop environmental measures and disease monitoring in order to form the basis for future interventions to reduce the burden of allergic and non-allergic diseases, especially in children in developing countries. ISAAC, The International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood, is a unique worldwide epidemiological research programme established in 1991 to investigate asthma, rhinitis and eczema in children due to considerable concern that these conditions were increasing in western and developing countries.
