Providence, RI (NYSE) 11 October 2010

asthma cost of pet ownership in the United States was estimated one billion according to a study published this month This is Allergy and Asthma Proceedings, the journal of the representation of the American Association of Certified Allergists, regional, state and local societies of allergy.


Dennis R. Ownby

, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, Medical College of Georgia and author of the study in the newspaper, said: “Both pets and asthma in the United States together, which makes it very likely that many people with asthma living in a house with a pet. practicing Allergists have long known that reach below the sensitized allergens from animals, exposure to animals may cause allergic symptoms of mild to severe rhinitis, asthma. to know even if the people that they are allergic to animals, it is common to have a pet in their homes. The high cost of treating asthma is important to ask how much contact with pets can increase asthma morbidity and health care costs. “

Exposure at home is estimated at more than 0.5-1000000000 additional costs of asthma care. require the removal of these additional costs would be that all people with asthma, allergic sensitivity to be evaluated and then convincing those who were aware of a pet, to keep it in front of her house pet. “

In an accompanying editorial, Dr. Morris Ling Long, Aidan Morris, Harvard Medical School, the recognition that adequate allergen avoidance is difficult because the physical properties of the animal allergens and do not reach and patient compliance. They went to the state of the art care for patients with asthma induced pets, including omalizumab, a monoclonal antibody (Genentech, San Francisco, CA), which can cost 000 euros per month to describe.

The main conclusions of the study:

About 50% of households have a cat or a dog.
17% of the U.S. population is allergic to cats
7.8% of all people in the United States have asthma experienced in the past 12 months.
The estimated cost of asthma in 2010 is U.S. 0.6 billion U.S. dollars in direct health care costs.
susceptibility to stroke and relatively constant load increase by a pet at home significantly morbidity and costs of asthma.
Who had a dog in the home and sensitivity dogs require a 49% increase in the risk of acute asthma treatment each year
The costs of asthma pet flakes inside valued at 0.5 billion euros
€ billion additional costs of asthma health care represents about 0.1% of the total projected health care in the United States for the year 2010.
The reduction of these additional costs would have to all people with asthma for allergic sensitivity to their pets indoors and those who are allergic to believe should be assessed from their homes to animals company.
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# 1 Title of work: pet dander and difficult to control asthma: The disease burden

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Author: Dennis R. Ownby, M.D.,
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Summary:

It is evidence that allergies to common house pets, especially cats and dogs, which closely related to asthma symptoms in the United States. Since the presence of pets in a house is a potentially modifiable factor, it is important to consider how could asthma morbidity and health care costs through the elimination of the animals reduced the house of all people are allergic asthma pets. The proportion of asthma morbidity pet finds surplus as a share of all costs associated with asthma was estimated health care in the U.S., amounting to 0.6 billion dollars. Pet therapy induced severe asthma can cost as much as # 000 per month.

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# 2 Title of the document: pet dander and difficult to control asthma: therapeutic options

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Authors: Morris Ling, MD, Aidan A. Long, MDFrom Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Summary:

The prevalence of sensitization to allergens of cat and dog is raised in the general population and represents a challenge for the medical treatment of allergic asthma. adequate allergen avoidance is difficult because the physical properties to achieve the animal allergens and non-compliance of the patients. Allergen-specific immunotherapy with high doses of subcutaneously showed a benefit in patients allergic to cats suffering from asthma and rhinoconjunctivitis, whereas data for patients are not allergic to dogs so convincing. Other approaches, including immunotherapy are sublingual allergen or peptide-based immunotherapy still experimental. Pharmacotherapy of pet-allergic asthma requires a phased approach following established guidelines for asthma management. In addition to short-acting beta-agonists and inhaled corticosteroids, antihistamines prophylactically compared with expected further exposure to pets, use of nasal steroids, and the use of leukotriene antagonists may also be considered as adjunctive therapy in patients with asthma pet-allergic and / or allergic rhinitis. Omalizumab appears to be particularly effective in the allergen-induced asthma pet. New therapies such as Fcgamma-Fel d1 chimeric proteins are yet to be assessed as part of the people.


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