Division of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Boston, Mass; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; Division of Allergy and Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass.
J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2018 Jan-Feb;6(1):22-29. doi: 10.1016/j.jaip.2017.10.002.
Exposure to indoor allergens and pollutants plays a significant part in the development of asthma and its associated morbidity. Inner-city children with asthma are disproportionately affected by these exposures with increased asthma morbidity. Although years of previous research have linked exposures in the urban home environment with significant childhood asthma disease, many of these allergens are also present in inner-city school environments. Therefore, evaluation of the school environment of patients with asthma is also essential. School-based environmental interventions may offer benefit for this problem and has the potential to help many children with asthma at once in a cost-effective manner. It is important that environmental health researchers continue to assess which interventions are most practical and result in the greatest measurable improvements.
室内过敏原和污染物的暴露在哮喘的发展及其相关发病率中起着重要作用。患有哮喘的城市内儿童受这些暴露的影响不成比例，哮喘发病率增加。尽管多年的先前研究已经将城市家庭环境中的暴露与儿童哮喘疾病显著相关，但这些过敏原也存在于城市学校环境中。因此，评估哮喘患者的学校环境也是必不可少的。基于学校的环境干预措施可能对这个问题有益，并有可能以具有成本效益的方式同时帮助许多哮喘儿童。环境健康研究人员继续评估哪些干预措施最实用并带来最大可衡量的改善是很重要的。
