Allergen skin weal/radioallergosorbent test relationship in childhood populations that differ in histamine skin reactivity: a multi‐national survey

Abstract

These findings suggest that HSR--a variable that differs in schoolchildren populations from the three countries studied--independently influences the results of ASPT and its influence should be considered when ASPT are assessed in international studies. The HSR differences found in the populations reported here probably reflect a complex, dynamic, environmental interaction that should be monitored in the different parts of the world.

Opisthorchis felineus negatively associates with skin test reactivity in Russia—EuroPrevall‐International Cooperation study

“…Moreover, the use of antihistamines could not explain these results. In a study of 9‐year‐old children from Italy, Poland, and Libya, mean wheal diameters elicited by 10 mg/ml histamine followed a gradient with lowest diameter in Poland (3.75 mm), then Italy (4.43 mm), and highest in Libya (5.06 mm) . The mean diameter of histamine SPT in our study participants was very similar to that seen in Poland (3.68 mm).…”

The Prevalence of Atopy in Asthmatic Children Correlates Strictly with the Prevalence of Atopy among Nonasthmatic Children

“…ASPTs were performed using Pepy’s method [23] in Ronciglione 1983 and1992, or the procedure suggested in the International Study of Asthma and Allergy in Children (ISAAC, Phase 2) [24] in all the other studies; in Ronciglione 1998, the same group of children underwent both procedures. The results of these studies (except those in Poprad and Ronciglione 2003) have been reported in several publications [16,17,18,19,20,21,22] (table 1, No. 1–12).…”

“…To clarify and interpret the relationship between asthma and atopy, we designed a systematic review addressing the findings from our previous surveys, single-center studies [16,17,18,19,20,21,22] and results of similar epidemiological studies available in the literature.…”