Changes in sensitization rates in patients with asthma and/or rhinitis in China between 2008 and 2018: a national cross-sectional study

Wanjun Wang¹*, Jianhong Wang²*, Guihua Song³*, Hua Xie⁴*, Xiaoping Lin⁴*, Ruonan Chai⁴*, Rongfei Zhu⁵*, Yong He⁶*, Jun Tang⁷*, Junge Wang⁸*, Jinghua Yang⁹*, Lili Zhi¹⁰*, Lin Wu¹¹*, Yan Jiang¹²*, Xiaoqin Zhou¹³*, Dongming Huang¹⁴*, Ning Wang¹⁵*, Rui Xu¹⁶*, Yuan Gao¹⁷*, Zhimin Chen¹⁸*, Jinling Liu¹⁸*, Xiaoli Han¹⁹*, Guolin Tan²⁰*, Jinzhun Wu²¹*, Deyu Zhao²²*, Jianjun Chen²³*, Xiwei Zhang²⁴*, Mengrong Li²⁴*, Yuemei Sun²⁵*, Yi Jiang²⁶*, Weitian Zhang²⁷*, Qianhui Qiu²⁸*, Chuanhe Liu²⁹*, Jie Yin³⁰*, Guodong Hao³¹*, Huabin Li³²*, Yongsheng Xu³³*, Shaohua Chen³⁴*, Hua Zhang³⁵, Shi Chen³⁶, Juan Meng³⁷, Dan Zeng³⁸, Wei Tang³⁹, Chuangli Hao⁴⁰, Jing Li¹†, Nanshan Zhong¹†, for the China Alliance of Research on Respiratory Allergic Disease

*Contributed equally

†Joint corresponding authors

1 National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University;

2 The First People’s Hospital of Yibin, Sichuan;

3 The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine;

4 General Hospital of Northern Theater Command;

5 Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science&Technology;

6 The Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Ningbo University;

7 Foshan First people’s hospital;

8 Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine;

9 GuangDong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine;

10 The First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University, Shandong Institute of Respiratory Diseases;

11 Hangzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese;

12 The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University;

13 Hubei Province Maternal and Child Health Hospital;

14 Boai Hospital of Zhongshan City;

15 Xi’an Children’s Hospital;

16 The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun-Yat University;

17 The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University;

18 Children’s Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health;

19 Hebei General Hospital;

20 Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University;

21 The Women and Children’s Hospital affiliated to Xiamen University;

22 Children’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University;

23 Union hospital of Tongji medical college;

24 The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children’s Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University;

25 Yu Huang Ding Hospital;

26 The First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University;

27 Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People’s Hospital;

28 Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University;

29 Children’s Hospital Capital Institute of Pediatrics;

30 Chengdu First People’s Hospital;

31 Tangshan Gongren Hospital;

32 ENT Institute and Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Eye & ENT Hospital, Fudan University;

33 Children’s Hospital of Tianjin University;

34 Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital;

35 The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University;

36 Hainan provincial people’s Hospital;

37 West China Hospital of Sichuan University;

38 Chongqing General Hospital, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences;

39 Ruijin Hospital of Shanghai Jiaotong University;

40 Children’s Hospital of Soochow University.