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Chronic rhinosinusitis in Europe - an underestimated disease. A GA2LEN study

Allergy · 2011 · Vol. 66(9) · pp. 1216–1223

Deniz Hastan✉(University of Amsterdam)W. J. Fokkens(University of Amsterdam)C. Bachert(Ghent University)R B Newson(Imperial College London)Jovanka Karadzinska Bislimovska(Saints Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje)Angelina Bockelbrink(Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin)Philippe‐Jean Bousquet(Université de Montpellier)Grzegorz Brożek(Medical University of Silesia)Andreina Bruno(Istituto di Biomedicina e di Immunologia Molecolare Alberto Monroy)S. E. Dahlén(Karolinska Institutet)Bertil Forsberg(Umeå University)Maria Gunnbjörnsdóttir(Uppsala University)Łukasz Kasper(Jagiellonian University)Ursula Krämer(Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)M. L. Kowalski(Medical University of Lodz)Bibi Lange(Odense University Hospital)Bo Lundbäck(University of Gothenburg)E. Salagean(University of Southampton)Ana Todo‐BomPeter Tomassen(Ghent University)Е. Тоскала(Helsinki University Hospital)Cornelis M. van Drunen(University of Amsterdam)Jean Bousquet(Université de Montpellier)Torsten Zuberbier(Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin)Deborah Jarvis(Imperial College London)Peter Burney(Imperial College London)

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Abstract

This is the first European international multicentre prevalence study of CRS. In this multicentre survey of adults in Europe, about one in ten participants had CRS with marked geographical variation. Smoking was associated with having CRS in all parts of Europe.

Sinusitis and nasal conditions Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization Nasal Surgery and Airway StudiesChronic rhinosinusitisMedicineSinusitisChronic diseaseDiseaseImmunologyDermatologyInternal medicine