... adults, and there are limited data on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. We aimed to investigate the national trends and age-stratified prevalence of AD among adults from 2007 to 2021 in South Korea, focusing mainly on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic-related factors. Methods: A nationwide cross...

... to determine the prevalence of AR and CRS from 1998 to 2021. To analyze prevalence trends before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, we employed a weighted linear regression model and obtained β-coefficients with 95% confidence intervals (CI). Results: Between 1998 and 2021, over a span of 24 years...

... allergies in adults and analyze changes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the medical records of 8,102 patients who visited an allergy clinic and underwent skin prick testing (SPT) from March 2018 to March 2022: 2 years before and 2 years during the pandemic. Demographic...

...Tannaz Abbasi-Dokht; Arefe Vafaeinezhad; Negin Khalesi; Farhad Malek; Dariush Haghmorad; Rasoul Baharlou Introduction: The prevalence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has rapidly increased worldwide. More investigation is needed to progress toward understanding the exact role of immune...

...Mitra Rezaei; Majid Marjani; Alireza Mirahmadi; Niloufar Bineshfar; Hadiseh Mohammadpour; Mihan Pourabdollah Toutkaboni; Farinaz Nasr Azadani; Zahra Amanzade; Payam Tabarsi; Seyed Ali Ziai; Jean Laurent Casanova; Davood Mansouri Introduction: Cytokine storm and critical COVID-19 pneumonia...

...Yuanhong Liu; Shengbo Yang; Yilan Zeng; Caifeng Yang; Xuemei Li; Xiule Zong; Ziting Tang; Dan Wang Introduction: The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on allergic diseases is not certain, as people’s living habits and the environment have been affected by the pandemic. The present study described...

...Fiorella Petrelli; Daiana Giannini; Celestino Pucci; Isabella Del Corso; Valeria Rocchi; Maria Pia Dolcher; Giulio Pieve; Federico Pratesi; Paola Migliorini; Ilaria Puxeddu Introduction: Immediate and delayed hypersensitivity reactions (HSR) to COVID-19 vaccines are rare adverse events that need...

... to their removal, and augmented progression of HIV disease. In coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-infected patients, the deposition of C1q activates the complement. Considering the paucity of data, this review highlights a significant gap in the potential of C1q in the immunocompromised state of preeclamptic HIV...

...Reyhan Gumusburun; Ceyda Tunakan Dalgıc; Emine Nihal Mete Gokmen; Aytul Zerrin Sin Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global health crisis. To prevent the disease, the Ministry of Health of Turkey gained approval for the CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use as the first-line...

...Pinar Gokmirza Ozdemir; Velat Celik Introduction: Several statements and position papers on the management of childhood asthma and allergies during the COVID-19 pandemic have been published of late. The aim of this study was to evaluate the knowledge and awareness of pediatricians and family...

... of the Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) vaccine. Methods: Analyses were performed prior to vaccination, 3 weeks following the 1st dose, and 4 weeks following the 2nd dose. Total, naïve (T N ), and different memory and effector subsets (T CM , T EM , and T EMRA ) of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells; SARS-CoV-2 spike protein...

... with COVID-19 ( n = 60) and samples from donors banked before the emergence of COVID-19 ( n = 109) were used in the assay. SARS-CoV-2 IgG levels were followed longitudinally in a subset of samples and were related to total IgG and IgG to reference antigens using an ImmunoCAP 250 platform. Results...

... Rolland; Philip W. Rouadi; Boleslaw Samolinski; Aziz Sheikh; Sanna Toppila-Salmi; Arunas Valiulis; Hak-Jong Choi; Hyun Ju Kim; Josep M. Anto In this article, we propose that differences in COVID-19 morbidity may be associated with transient receptor potential ankyrin 1 (TRPA1) and/or transient receptor...

...; Sanna Toppila-Salmi; Arunas Valiulis; Hak-Jong Choi; Hyun Ju Kim; Josep M. Anto There are large country variations in COVID-19 death rates that may be partly explained by diet. Many countries with low COVID-19 death rates have a common feature of eating large quantities of fermented vegetables...

...Ayse Bilge Ozturk; Ayşe Baççıoğlu; Ozge Soyer; Ersoy Civelek; Bülent Enis Şekerel; Sevim Bavbek Background: International guidelines in asthma and allergy has been updated for COVID-19 pandemic and pandemic has caused dramatic changes in allergy and immunology services. However, it is not known...

...Yuanyuan Wang; Jingjing Chen; Wei Chen; Ling Liu; Mei Dong; Juan Ji; Die Hu; Nianzhi Zhang The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to explore the literature and collate data comparing the mortality of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients with and without asthma...

...Malgorzata Kloc; Rafik Mark Ghobrial; Jacek Z. Kubiak The difference between the female and male immune response to COVID-19 infection, and infections in general, is multifactorial. The well-known determiners of the immune response, such as X and Y chromosomes, sex hormones, and microbiota...

...Hans-Uwe Simon; Alexander V. Karaulov; Martin F. Bachmann A vaccine to protect against COVID-19 is urgently needed. Such a vaccine should efficiently induce high-affinity neutralizing antibodies which neutralize SARS-CoV-2, the cause of COVID-19. However, there is a concern regarding both vaccine...

... a higher risk of becoming seriously ill from coronavirus disease 2019 (CO-VID-19), although recent reports from the USA and the UK suggest that asthma is much more common in children and adults with mild to severe COVID-19 than has previously been reported in Asia and in Europe. As in previous severe acute...