...Hilde Aaneland; Marie Hamilton Larsen; Sølvi Helseth; Astrid Klopstad Wahl Introduction: Quality of life (QOL) and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in children and adolescents with food allergies have been an important and steadily growing field of research for the past 20 years. There seem...

... in primary immunodeficiency patients receiving regular IVIG or SCIG therapy was evaluated, and serum IgG trough levels, frequency of infections, frequency and duration of hospitalizations, duration of absence from school/work, and quality of life were determined. Methods: In this study, fifteen patients...

... sloughing. Studies investigating the chronic multisystem effects of these syndromes and assessing patients in terms of quality of life (QOL), depression, and anxiety in the pediatric population are limited. In this study, we aimed to investigate the long-term effects of these diseases from a multisystem...

...Nesibe Gül Yüksel Aslıer; Özlem Saatçi; Mustafa Aslier Introduction: The severity of cat allergy-related symptoms varies widely. The rising prevalence of cat owning makes it a significant human health problem. The aim of this study was to evaluate disease severity and quality of life (QoL) aspects...

.... Treatment response to omalizumab was evaluated with the urticaria control test (UCT). Quality of life was evaluated with the dermatology quality of life questionnaire (DLQI). Baseline UCT and DLQI were compared with UCT and DLQI after omalizumab treatment. Results: Evaluation was made of a total of 116...

... in children and young adults, AR can be particularly vexing in the elderly: several studies have underlined its impact on the patient’s self-perceived health-related quality of life (HR-QoL). Available literature data on AR-affected elderly patients remain sparse and often focused on specific characteristics...

...Alexander V. Karaulov; Natalia Nenasheva; Yury Smolkin; Aleksandr Maslakov; Luiz Lucio Introduction: Allergic rhinitis (AR) is a disease that affects ≤24% of people in Russia, significantly impairing quality of life (QoL). Intranasal corticosteroids, such as triamcinolone acetonide (TAA...

...Zoe Morou; Emilia Vassilopoulou; Petros Galanis; Athina Tatsioni; Nikolaos G. Papadopoulos; Ioannis D.K. Dimoliatis Background: Food allergy (FA) in children impacts their own and their family quality of life (QoL). The association of specific FA factors with the various domains of health-related...

...-based evaluation of medical history, Angioedema Control Test (AECT), Angioedema Quality of Life Questionnaire (AE-QoL), Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale-7 (GAD-7), and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Results: Thirty-seven patients with HAE were included (31 females, mean age 49.6 ± 17.5...

... Quality Index (DLQI) might be used to assess disease control and quality of life (QoL) impairment, respectively. Objectives: In this study, we aimed to describe a new scoring system for the Fric test and evaluate the correlations of Fric scores with UCT, DLQI, and other disease activity assessment scores...

... of this study was to compare the efficacy of 21-day use of buffered hypertonic saline (BHS) versus normal saline solution (NSS) on reducing nasal symptoms in children with seasonal AR (SAR). Comparing their efficacy on nasal cytology counts (NCC), quality of life, and sleep quality was the secondary aim...

... objectives were to investigate whether adipokines are involved in CU pathogenesis and to outline relationships between adipokines and urticaria severity and quality of life. Methods: Serum adiponectin, leptin, lipocalin-2 (LCN2), interleukin (IL)-10, IL-6, and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α concentrations...

... with asthma and obesity, who were allocated to either an interventional 28-week program of normocaloric diet based on normal requirements for height and meal planning (n = 26) or a non-interventional (free diet) control group (n = 25). Asthma-related quality of life (AR-QOL, assessed by the Standardized...

.... Methods: A matched case-control study was used to compare health-related quality of life (HRQL) of the Dutch general population that did not seek medical care for their FA with outpatients who did seek medical care. All participants were diagnosed as food allergic (i.e. with a suggestive history...

.... Overall, switching to self-administration therapy is looked upon favourably from both patient and clinician perspectives by virtue of the potential improvement in quality of life arising from optimisation of therapy and early intervention. The recent changes to product licences allowing self...

...Peter Clement; Davis Gates Background: Allergic rhinitis (AR) carries a high symptom burden and impact on quality of life. The ability of an AR treatment to achieve and sustain symptom suppression would be expected to enhance quality of life and improve long-term outcomes. Methods: In this ad hoc...

... population Quality of life Real-life study Pharmacodynamics Pharmacokinetics Total symptoms score Urticaria Table 1 Neurologic/behavioural events reported during 18 months of treatment with either cetirizine or levocetirizine Anti-allergic drugs, particularly the antihistamines...

...Laurent Laforest; Jean Bousquet; Guilhem Pietri; Vasilisa Sazonov Kocevar; Donald Yin; Yves Pacheco; Eric van Ganse Objectives: We studied the evolution of generic and rhinoconjunctivitis-specific quality of life (QOL) during pollen season in patients with isolated seasonal allergic rhinitis (SAR...

...Kimihiro Okubo; Minoru Gotoh; Kenichi Shimada; Masayo Ritsu; Minoru Okuda; Bruce Crawford Background: Although currently in its infancy, quality of life (QOL) research in Japan is rapidly expanding and is expected to become a standard outcome measure in clinical trials. In Japan, QOL has...