Beyond seasonal suffering: Effects of Pollen on Cardiorespiratory Health and Allergies

Project Information

EPOCHAL

Grant agreement ID: 853568

DOI

10.3030/853568

Project closed

EC signature date 19 December 2019

Start date 1 August 2020

End date 31 July 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 381 931,50

EU contribution

€ 1 381 931,50

Coordinated by

SCHWEIZERISCHES TROPEN UND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUT
Switzerland

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (10)

Multi-decade changes in pollen season onset, duration, and intensity: A concern for public health?

Author(s): Sarah Glick, Regula Gehrig, Marloes Eeftens
Published in: Science of The Total Environment, Issue 781, 2021, Page(s) 146382, ISSN 0048-9697
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146382

Estimation of historical daily airborne pollen concentrations across Switzerland using a spatio temporal random forest model

Author(s): Behzad Valipour Shokouhi, Kees de Hoogh, Regula Gehrig, Marloes Eeftens
Published in: Science of The Total Environment, Issue 906, 2024, Page(s) 167286, ISSN 0048-9697
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167286

Pollen exposure is associated with risk of respiratory symptoms during the first year of life

Author(s): Amanda Gisler, Marloes Eeftens, Kees de Hoogh, Danielle Vienneau, Yasmin Salem, Sophie Yammine, Julian Jakob, Olga Gorlanova, Fabienne Decrue, Regula Gehrig, Urs Frey, Philipp Latzin, Oliver Fuchs, Jakob Usemann, on behalf of the BILD study group
Published in: Allergy, Issue Volume 77, Issue 12, 2022, Page(s) 3606-3616, ISSN 0105-4538
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/all.15284

Association between short-term pollen exposure and blood pressure in adults: A repeated-measures study

Author(s): Alexandra Bürgler, Axel Luyten, Sarah Glick, Marek Kwiatkowski, Regula Gehrig, Minaya Beigi, Karin Hartmann, Marloes Eeftens
Published in: Environmental Research, 2024, Page(s) 256: 119224, ISSN 0013-9351
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.119224

Spatiotemporal modelling of airborne birch and grass pollen concentration across Switzerland: A comparison of statistical, machine learning and ensemble methods

Author(s): Behzad Valipour Shokouhi, Kees de Hoogh, Regula Gehrig, Marloes Eeftens
Published in: Environmental Research, Issue 263, 2024, Page(s) 119999, ISSN 0013-9351
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.119999

Ambient pollen exposure and pollen allergy symptom severity in the EPOCHAL study

Author(s): Axel Luyten, Alexandra Bürgler, Sarah Glick, Marek Kwiatkowski, Regula Gehrig, Minaya Beigi, Karin Hartmann, Marloes Eeftens
Published in: Allergy, 2024, Page(s) 1-13, ISSN 0105-4538
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/all.16130

Rationale and Design of a Panel Study Investigating Six Health Effects of Airborne Pollen: The EPOCHAL Study

Author(s): Alexandra Bürgler, Sarah Glick, Karin Hartmann, Marloes Eeftens
Published in: Frontiers in Public Health, Issue 9, 2021, ISSN 2296-2565
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.689248

Comparing alder, birch and grass pollen concentrations derived from spatiotemporal statistical and dispersion models across Switzerland

Author(s): Behzad Valipour Shokouhi, Kees de Hoogh, Danielle Vienneau, Regula Gehrig, Andreas Pauling, Marloes Eeftens
Published in: Atmospheric Environment, Issue 361, 2025, Page(s) 121486, ISSN 1352-2310
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2025.121486

Associations between ambient pollen exposure and measures of cognitive performance

Author(s): Baylee Corpening, Alexandra Bürgler, Bálint Tamási, Regula Gehrig, Kexin Gan, Ana Alonso Hellweg, Axel Luyten, Sarah Glick, Minaya Beigi, Karin Hartmann, Marloes Eeftens
Published in: Environmental Epidemiology, Issue 9, 2025, Page(s) e374, ISSN 2474-7882
Publisher: Lippincott Wollter Kluwer
DOI: 10.1097/ee9.0000000000000374

Associations between airborne pollen, pollen-related allergic rhinitis and blood pressure: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Author(s): Alexandra Bürgler, Sarah Glick, Axel Luyten, Shihua Shi, Marloes Eeftens
Published in: Environment International, 2025, Page(s) 109517, ISSN 0160-4120
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2025.109517

Other (5)

PROSPERO International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews: Associations between airborne pollen, intermittent allergic rhinitis and blood pressure: a systematic review

Author(s): Marloes Eeftens, Sarah Glick, Shihua Shi, Alexandra Bürgler
Published in: PROSPERO International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews, Issue PROSPERO 2022 CRD42022381907, 2022
Publisher: NIHR National Institute for Health Research

EPOCHAL (Effects of Pollen on Cardiorespiratory Health and Allergic symptoms): Nurse home visit form (English and German)

Author(s): Marloes Eeftens, Sarah Glick, Alexandra Bürgler
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7715875

Protocol for a systematic review: association between airborne pollen, intermittent allergic rhinitis and blood pressure

Author(s): Sarah Glick; Shihua Shi; Alexandra Bürgler; Axel Luyten; Marloes Eeftens
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7805000

EPOCHAL (Effects of Pollen on Cardiorespiratory Health and Allergic symptoms): Daily questionnaire (English and German)

Author(s): Marloes Eeftens, Sarah Glick, Alexandra Bürgler
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7716667

EPOCHAL (Effects of Pollen on Cardiorespiratory Health and Allergic symptoms): Intake questionnaire (English and German)

Author(s): Marloes Eeftens, Sarah Glick, Alexandra Bürgler
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7613529