2. SOLUTIONS
  3. Patient Journey
  4. Patient Journey
SOLUTIONS

Patient Journey

Respiratory allergies follow a chronic and progressing disease course, especially when left untreated1.

Allergic rhinitis is often underdiagnosed and a patient may have waited six years after the onset of symptoms to see a specialist2.

 

Patients
may have waited

6

years after the onset
of symptoms to see a
specialist1

Globally,
over

400

million people3
suffer from allergic
rhinitis

Asthma and allergic
rhinitis are estimated
to result in more than

100

million4 lost workdays
and missed school
days every year in Europe.

Allergen
immunotherapy is
used in less than

10%

of eligible
patients5 in the world.

 

 

  1. Bousquet J, et al. Allergy 2008;63(S86):8-160 - Canonica GW, et al. World Allergy Organ J 2008;1:138-44 - Valovirta E. (2011) EFA Book on Respiratory Allergies - Raise Awareness, Relieve the Burden. www.efanet.org Last accessed Febr 2024
  2. Baena-Cagnani et al. World Allergy Organization Journal (2015) 8:10 DOI 10.1186/s40413-015-0057-0
  3. Pawankar, R. (2014). Allergic diseases and asthma: a global public health concern and a call to action, BioMed Central. 7: 1-3 
  4. The European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Advocacy Manifesto: https://emj.emghealth.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Connecting-the-Dots-Between-Skin-and-Allergy.pdf. Last accessed Febr 2024
  5. Jutel M, et al. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2015;136:556–68

Last updated on: 27/05/2024