During the past 50 years, the rise in
prevalence of allergic diseases has increased.
We've seen a «rising
prevalence of allergic diseases» around the industrialized world in past decades, but perhaps nothing quite this dramatic.
The prevalence of allergic diseases has increased since the mid-1900s, and today, approximately one fourth of Swedish adults has hayfever, while 10 percent suffer from asthma.
Looking Forward
The prevalence of allergic diseases in the industrialized world has been on the rise for the last 50 years, according to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.
In particular, antibiotic use during infancy potently perturbs intestinal bacterial populations and has often been cited as a contributing factor to the rising
prevalence of allergic disease (8).
Not exact matches
«Asthma and
allergic diseases affect up to 20 percent
of people in developed countries, and their
prevalence is increasing,» says Cruse.
Analyzing the
prevalence of the conditions in subdivisions
of the purebred population based upon the American Kennel Club classification
of breed group or by relatedness at a DNA sequence level revealed that three conditions, atopy /
allergic dermatitis, hypothyroidism, and intervertebral disk
disease, were common across the purebred population with many
of the purebred groups showing higher risk than the mixed - breed population.