Article: INCREASED ALLERGEN LEVELS IN HOMES LINKED TO ASTHMA

Article: Increased allergen levels in homes linked to ...
Health & Medicine Week;  March 17, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... survey demonstrate that elevated allergen levels in the home are associated with ... factors that contribute to high allergen levels in homes and to determine whether elevated household allergen levels were associated with occupants ...

Article: Prediction of residential pet and cockroach allergen ...
Environmental Health Perspectives;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... ownership and presence of cockroaches. Allergen levels were dichotomized using the limit ... and presence of cockroaches predicts allergen levels above the upper cut point but is a ... A positive association between cat allergen levels in house dust and serum-specific ...

Article: Elevated allergen levels in homes associated with ...
The Hindustan Times;  March 1, 2008 ;     556 words ... ... revealed that exposure to increased allergen levels in home may trigger asthmatic symptoms ... the factors contributing to elevated allergen levels in homes and its association with ... children were less likely to have high allergen levels, as homes are more frequently cleaned ...

Article: Socioeconomic Predictors of High Allergen Levels in ...
Environmental Health Perspectives;  April 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... proportion of homes with maximum home allergen levels in the highest category was 42% for ... more likely to have high cockroach allergen levels than homes in the low-poverty area ... and a greater risk of high cockroach allergen levels. Within a single U.S. metropolitan ...

Article: Temple University Hospital Study Finds That Relief From Cockroach ...
Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  May 20, 2002 ;     582 words ... ... traps and sprays, rapidly reduced allergen levels as well as cockroach populations in ... subsequent increases in insect numbers and allergen levels. "In the first week, major cockroach allergen levels were reduced in the homes that received ...

Article: Cutting household allergen levels unlikely to have ...
World Disease Weekly;  October 26, 2004 ;     668 words ... ... had any episodes of wheezing in the preceding 12 months. Allergen levels had been measured in house dust samples from the living ... sensitization and wheezing occurred in response to very low allergen levels, and they were significantly more likely if the father ...

Article: Domestic mite and cat allergen levels in the ...
Respiratory Therapeutics Week;  February 17, 2003 ;     635 words ... ... in Mediterranean countries. This study reports domestic allergen levels among the general populations of two regions of Spain ... comes under the major subject areas of Allergy Medicine, Allergen Levels, Asthma, Pediatrics, Pulmonology, Immunology, Domestic ...