Increasing wildfire smoke from the climate crisis: Impacts on asthma and allergies

J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2023 Nov;152(5):1081-1083. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2023.09.008. Epub 2023 Sep 20.

Authors

John R Balmes¹, Stephanie M Holm²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, Calif; School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, Calif. Electronic address: John.balmes@ucsf.edu.
² Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, Calif; Western States Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit, San Francisco, Calif.

PMID: 37739070
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2023.09.008

No abstract available

Keywords: Climate change; PM(2.5); allergies; asthma; wildfire smoke.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Air Pollutants* / adverse effects
Asthma* / epidemiology
Asthma* / etiology
Environmental Exposure / adverse effects
Humans
Hypersensitivity* / epidemiology
Particulate Matter
Smoke / adverse effects
Wildfires*

Substances

Smoke
Air Pollutants
Particulate Matter

Grants and funding

T42 OH008429/OH/NIOSH CDC HHS/United States