Innate immunity and asthma risk in Amish and Hutterite farm children. BACKGROUND The Amish and Hutterites are U.S. agricultural populations whose lifestyles are remarkably similar in many respects but whose...
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Land cover of early-life environment modulates the risk of type 1 diabetes. OBJECTIVE Environmental microbial exposures have been implicated to protect against immune-mediated diseases such as type 1 diabetes. Our...
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Microbiome and type 1 diabetes. The steep increase in the incidence of type 1 diabetes (T1D), in the Western world after World War II, cannot be explained solely by genetic...
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Urban environment predisposes dogs and their owners to allergic symptoms. Our companion-animals, dogs, suffer increasingly from non-communicable diseases, analogous to those common in humans, such as allergic manifestations. In humans,...
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A biodiversity hypothesis. Biodiversity hypothesis states that contact with natural environments enriches the human microbiome, promotes immune balance and protects from allergy and inflammatory disorders. We are protected by two...
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The rich and the poor: environmental biodiversity protecting from allergy Purpose of review It has been proposed that biodiversity loss leads to reduced interaction between environmental and human microbiotas. This,...
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Immunological resilience and biodiversity for prevention of allergic diseases and asthma. Increase of allergic conditions has occurred at the same pace with the Great Acceleration, which stands for the rapid...
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Environmental biodiversity, human microbiota, and allergy are interrelated. Rapidly declining biodiversity may be a contributing factor to another global megatrend—the rapidly increasing prevalence of allergies and other chronic inflammatory diseases...
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Managing the allergy and asthma epidemic in 2020s—Lessons from the Finnish experience. In Finland, a systematic public health programme was implemented from 2008 to 2018 to mitigate the burden of...
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The ‘Hygiene hypothesis’ Autoimmune and allergic diseases have become a major health problem in the Western world during past decades. The hygiene hypothesis suggests that decreased microbial exposure in childhood...
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