'The reason why we think climate change is going to change the type of disease patterns and the severity of illness that we see in patients with respiratory diseases is that it changes a lot of the environment as well as the exposures.'
. And there's also concern that patients who are otherwise healthy, because they now have more exposures that are due to climate change, can then develop these diseases," she said in an interview withBalakrishnan is the lead author of a comprehensive, evidence-based review focused on the effects of climate change and air pollution across the spectrum of pulmonary disorders.
, and death. Air pollution and allergens are the main exposures affecting lung and heart health in this changing climate," the statement says.Stanley Fineman, MD, MBA, a past president of the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology and an allergist in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia, has seen firsthand how global warming and an earlier start to spring allergy season is affecting his patients.
Fineman and colleagues both in Atlanta and across the country have reported sharp increases in the proportion of new adult patients, and in existing patients who have experienced exacerbation of previously mild disease. "1) an increase in plant growth and faster plant growth; 2) an increase in the amount of pollen produced by each plant; 3) an increase in the amount of allergenic proteins contained in pollen; 4) an increase in the start time of plant growth and, therefore, the start of pollen production; 5) an earlier and longer pollen season; 6) change in the geospatial distribution of pollen, i.e. plant ranges and long-distance atmospheric transport moving polewards," they write.
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