Self-reported nasal hyperreactivity is common in all chronic upper airway inflammatory phenotypes and not related to general well-being

Wout Backaert; Brecht Steelant; Mark Jorissen; Lukas Van Oudenhove; Karel Talavera; Peter W Hellings; Laura Van Gerven

doi:10.1111/all.15060

Self-reported nasal hyperreactivity is common in all chronic upper airway inflammatory phenotypes and not related to general well-being

Allergy. 2021 Dec;76(12):3806-3809. doi: 10.1111/all.15060. Epub 2021 Sep 2.

Authors

Wout Backaert^{1

2}, Brecht Steelant², Mark Jorissen^{1

3}, Lukas Van Oudenhove^{4

5}, Karel Talavera⁶, Peter W Hellings^{1

2

7

8}, Laura Van Gerven^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
² Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Allergy and Clinical Immunology Research Group, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
³ Department of Neurosciences, Experimental Otorhinolaryngology, Rhinology Research, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁴ Department of Chronic Diseases and Metabolism (CHROMETA), Translational Research Center for Gastrointestinal Disorders (TARGID), Laboratory for Brain-Gut Axis Studies (LaBGAS), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁵ Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory (CANlab), Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.
⁶ Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Laboratory of Ion Channel Research, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁷ Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Laboratory of Upper Airways Research, U Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.
⁸ Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

PMID: 34418126
DOI: 10.1111/all.15060

No abstract available

Keywords: ENT (rhinitis sinusitis nasal polyps…); clinical immunology; epidemiology; inflammation; quality-of-life; rhinitis; sinusitis.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Chronic Disease
Humans
Nasal Polyps*
Phenotype
Rhinitis* / epidemiology
Self Report