Editorial
The burden of asthma: weighing the community risk against individual risk
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During the past few years findings from two studies
the
International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood
(ISAAC)1 and the European Community Respiratory Health
Survey (ECRHS)2seem to have dominated much of the
thinking about the geographical variations in the prevalence of asthma.
These studies suggest important variations by geographical site in
different countries and, to a lesser extent, in study centres within
countries. However, these studies only raise new questions as to how
geographical factors contribute to the aetiology of asthma. For
example, are the geographical variations in the prevalence of asthma
caused by unique exposures to disease causing agents found only in
local environments? Do differences in geographical location in some way
alter host susceptibility? Do local environmental conditions, either
physical or sociocultural, alter the host/agent interactions in ways
that are critical to the expression of this condition?
In this issue of Thorax Duran-Tauleria and
Rona3 further
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