title: [Allergic rhinitis and its impact on asthma (ARIA update 2008). The Austrian perspective].
abstract: In 1999, during the ARIA (Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma) WHO workshop, an evidence-based document was produced using an extensive review of the literature available up to December of the same year. An update of the ARIA guidelines was soon needed and started in 2004. Thereafter, there was the need for an even more global document, which would highlight the interactions between the upper and the lower airways including diagnosis, epidemiology, common risk factors, management and prevention, and comprise the allergy perspective also for developing countries. This goal was achieved with the most recently published ARIA update 2008. The present article is the result of consecutive efforts of the authors of the ARIA update 2008 to accomplish the nationwide comprehensive distribution of information by publication in important national journals, like the WMW.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Pathophysiologie, Zentrum für Physiologie, Pathophysiologie und Immunologie, Medizinische Universität Wien, Austria. isabella.pali@meduniwien.ac.at
authors.forename: Isabella
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Pali-Schöll
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Pohl
authors.forename: Werner
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Aberer
authors.forename: Felix
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wantke
authors.forename: Friedrich
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Horak
authors.forename: Erika
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Jensen-Jarolim
authors.forename: Nikolai
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Khaltaev
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bousquet
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001249:Asthma / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D001317:Austria; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D012221:Rhinitis, Allergic, Perennial / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D006255:Rhinitis, Allergic, Seasonal / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D014944:World Health Organization