Association of Allergic Rhinitis with Sinonasal Polyposis: A Clinical and Laboratory-Based Observational Study
Keywords:
Allergic rhinitis; sinonasal polyposis; absolute eosinophil count.Abstract
Background: Allergic rhinitis and sinonasalpolyposis share several inflammatorymechanisms, including eosinophilicinfiltration, type 2 inflammation and immunoglobulin E-mediated immuneactivity. However, the contribution of allergyto sinonasal-polyp formation remains
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1. The study was conducted at a single tertiarycare institution; therefore, the findings may not be generalizable to the wider community or to other geographical populations.
2. The hospital-based sampling method may have introduced referral bias because patients attending an ENT department may have had more persistent or severe symptoms than patients managed in primary care.




