Short-term effect of outdoor mould spore exposure on prescribed allergy medication sales in Central France.

Denis CaillaudM CheriauxS MartinC SégalaN DupuyBertrand EvrardM Thibaudon

Published in: Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology (2018)

The association between prescribed daily sales of oral antihistamines with topical treatment sales is associated with temporal changes to Cladosporium and Aspergillus-Penicillium in the whole population. When the influence of age and sex was considered, these two moulds contributed to prescribed medication sales only in the male general population.

Keyphrases

healthcare
adverse drug
air pollution
emergency department
electronic health record