Sensitization to allergens and environmental features: a preliminary analysis to study their relation

Prevalence of allergic disease, in the last decades, increases in all countries, as much that The World Health Organization consider allergy a non-transmittable disease which is out of control. The most common allergies are determined by production of Immunoglobulin E (IgE), that can cause different disorders. Diagnosis started at the end of the nineteenth century by in vivo test and during the seventies IgE detection in blood had been introduced and it allowed to identify allergenic molecules; FABER test combines these two sources of information. The purpose of this study is to explore 16 allergens behavior on the province of Rome and to find the most appropriate model to define a possible relationship between sensitizations’ occurrences and environmental features. In this case of study, we will take into account rainfall and minimum, maximum and average temperature recorded by ARPA Lazio.