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. 2025 Jul;80(7):2081-2083.
doi: 10.1111/all.16612. Epub 2025 Jun 3.

Vulnerability to Pollen-Related Asthma Hospital Admissions in the UK Biobank: A Case-Crossover Study

Elaine Fuertes  1 , Garyfallos Konstantinoudis  2 , Diana van der Plaat  1 , Adam Koczoski  1 , Mikhail Sofiev  3 , Paul Agnew  4 , Lucy Neal  4 , Debbie Jarvis  1
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Vulnerability to Pollen-Related Asthma Hospital Admissions in the UK Biobank: A Case-Crossover Study

Elaine Fuertes et al. Allergy. 2025 Jul.
No abstract available

Keywords: air pollution; asthma; case‐crossover; cohort; pollen.

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The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
Associations between asthma hospital admissions and pollen levels (high versus low), stratified by tertiles of daily NO2, ozone and PM2.5 levels (lowest tertile = black squares, middle tertile = blue circles, highest tertile = red stars). *p‐interaction term < 0.05.
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