Allergen levels in inner city homes: Baseline concentrations and evaluation of intervention effectiveness

Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 430-440

  Adgate, John L ^a,b   Ramachandran, Gurumurthy ^a   Cho, Sook Ja ^a   Ryan, Andrew D ^a   Grengs, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Mayo   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Exposure assessment; Intervention

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CAT; CITY; CLEANING; COCKROACH; DERMATOPHAGOIDES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FUNGUS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOME; HOUSE DUST; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; RISK REDUCTION;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DERMATOPHAGOIDES; CATS; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; DUST; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FOCUS GROUPS; FUNGI; GLYCOPROTEINS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOUSEKEEPING; HOUSING; HUMANS; MINNESOTA; POVERTY; URBAN POPULATION;

ACARI; BLATTARIA; FUNGI;

EID: 45549087559     PISSN: 15590631     EISSN: 1559064X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jes.7500638     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Arbes Jr S.J., Cohn R.D., Yin M., Muilenberg M.L., Friedman W., and Zeldin D.C. Dog allergen (Can f 1) and cat allergen (Fel d 1) in US homes: results from the National Survey of Lead and Allergens in Housing. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2004: 114(1): 111-117.
2. Carter M.C., Perzanowski M.S., Raymond A., and Platts-Mills T.A. Home intervention in the treatment of asthma among inner-city children. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2001: 108(5): 732-737.
3. Chan-Yeung M., Ferguson A., Watson W., Dimich-Ward H., Rousseau R., Lilley M., Dybuncio A., and Becker A. The Canadian Childhood Asthma Primary Prevention Study: outcomes at 7 years of age. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2005: 116(1): 49-55.
4. Chapman M.D., Heymann P.W., Wilkins S.R., Brown M.J., and Platts-Mills T.A. Monoclonal immunoassays for major dust mite (Dermatophagoides) allergens, Der p I and Der f I, and quantitative analysis of the allergen content of mite and house dust extracts. J Allergy Clin Immunol 1987: 80(2): 184-194.
5. Chew G.L., Higgins K.M., Gold D.R., Muilenberg M.L., and Burge H.A. Monthly measurements of indoor allergens and the influence of housing type in a northeastern US city. Allergy 1999: 54(10): 1058-1066.
6. Cho S., Ramachandran G., Grengs J., Ryan A., Eberly L., and Adgate J.L. Longitudinal evaluation of allergen and culturable fungal concentrations in inner-city households. J Occup Environ Hyg 2007 (in press).
7. Eggleston P.A., and Wood R.A. Management of allergies to animals. Allergy Proc 1992: 13(6): 289-292.
8. Elliott L., Arbes S., Harvey E., Lee R., Salo P., Cohn R., London S., and Zeldin D. Dust weight and asthma prevalence in the national survey of lead and allergens in houseing (NSLAH). Environ Health Perspect 2007: 115: 215-220.
9. Greaves I.A., Sexton K., Blumenthal M.N., Church T.R., Adgate J.L., Ramachandran G., Fredrickson A.L., Ryan A.D., and Geisser M.S. Asthma, atopy, and lung function among racially diverse, poor inner-urban Minneapolis schoolchildren. Environ Res 2007: 103(2): 257-266.
10. HUD. Healthy Homes Issues: Asthma. US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control, Washington, DC, 2001.
11. IOM. Damp Indoor Spaces and Health. National Academies Press, Washington, DC, 2004.
12. Israel B.A., Schulz A.J., Parker E.A., and Becker A.B. Review of community-based research: assessing partnership approaches to improve public health. Annu Rev Public Health 1998: 19: 173-202.
13. Kitch B.T., Chew G., Burge H.A., Muilenberg M.L., Weiss S.T., Platts-Mills T.A., O'Connor G., and Gold D.R. Socioeconomic predictors of high allergen levels in homes in the greater Boston area. Environ Health Perspect 2000: 108(4): 301-307.
14. Krieger J.W., Takaro T.K., Song L., and Weaver M. The Seattle-King County Healthy Homes Project: a randomized, controlled trial of a community health worker intervention to decrease exposure to indoor asthma triggers. Am J Public Health 2005: 95(4): 652-659.
15. Leaderer B.P., Belanger K., Triche E., Holford T., Gold D.R., Kim Y., Jankun T., Ren P., McSharry Je J.E., Platts-Mills T.A., Chapman M.D., and Bracken M.B. Dust mite, cockroach, cat, and dog allergen concentrations in homes of asthmatic children in the northeastern United States: impact of socioeconomic factors and population density. Environ Health Perspect 2002: 110(4): 419-425.
16. Levy J.I., Brugge D., Peters J.L., Clougherty J.E., and Saddler S.S. A community-based participatory research study of multifaceted in-home environmental interventions for pediatric asthmatics in public housing. Soc Sci Med 2006: 63(8): 2191-2203.
17. Morgan W.J., Crain E.F., Gruchalla R.S., O'Connor G.T., Kattan M., Evans III R., Stout J., Malindzak G., Smartt E., Plaut M., Walter M., Vaughn B., and Mitchell H. Results of a home-based environmental intervention among urban children with asthma. N Engl J Med 2004: 351(11): 1068-1080.
18. NRC. Clearing the Air: Asthma and Indoor Air Exposures. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C, 2000.
19. NRC/IOM. Ethical Considerations For Research on Housing-Related Health Hazards Involving Children. National Academies Press, Washington, DC, 2005.
20. Ramachandran G., Adgate J.L., Banerjee S., Church T.R., Jones D., Fredrickson A., and Sexton K. Indoor air quality in two urban elementary schools - measurements of airborne fungi, carpet allergens, CO2, temperature, and relative humidity. J Occup Environ Hyg 2005: 2(11): 553-566.
21. Rosenstreich D.L., Eggleston P., Kattan M., Baker D., Slavin R.G., Gergen P., Mitchell H., McNiff-Mortimer K., Lynn H., Ownby D., and Malveaux F. The role of cockroach allergy and exposure to cockroach allergen in causing morbidity among inner-city children with asthma. N Engl J Med 1997: 336(19): 1356-1363.
22. Sexton K., Greaves I.A., Church T.R., Adgate J.L., Ramachandran G., Tweedie R.L., Fredrickson A., Geisser M., Sikorski M., Fischer G., Jones D., and Ellringer P. A school-based strategy to assess children's environmental exposures and related health effects in economically disadvantaged urban neighborhoods. J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol 2000: 10(6 Part2): 682-694.
23. Swartz L.J., Callahan K.A., Butz A.M., Rand C.S., Kanchanaraksa S., Diette G.B., Krishnan J.A., Breysse P.N., Buckley T.J., Mosley A.M., and Eggleston P.A. Methods and issues in conducting a community-based environmental randomized trial. Environ Res 2004: 95(2): 156-165.
24. Takaro T.K., Krieger J.W., and Song L. Effect of environmental interventions to reduce exposure to asthma triggers in homes of low-income children in Seattle. J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol 2004: 14(Suppl 1): S133-S143.
25. Vojta P.J., Randels S.P., Stout J., Muilenberg M., Burge H.A., Lynn H., Mitchell H., O'Connor G.T., and Zeldin D.C. Effects of physical interventions on house dust mite allergen levels in carpet, bed, and upholstery dust in low-income, urban homes. Environ Health Perspect 2001: 109(8): 815-819.
26. Wood R.A., Eggleston P.A., Lind P., Ingemann L., Schwartz B., Graveson S., Terry D., Wheeler B., and Adkinson Jr N.F. Antigenic analysis of household dust samples. Am Rev Respir Dis 1988: 137(2): 358-363.
27. Wu F., and Takaro T.K. Childhood asthma and environmental interventions. Environ Health Perspect 2007: 115, (doi:10.1289/ehp.8989, online January 25, 2007) 971-975.