Hassan Mohammed

ENT SpR

North East Deanery, Newcastle, UK.

Latest Contribution

Is non-allergic rhinitis as bad as allergic?

1 September 2018 | | allergic rhinitis, mini-RQLQ, nonallergic rhinitis, quality of life, treatment satisfaction

Non-allergic rhinitis (NAR) occurs when rhinitis symptoms are not associated with allergic, infective or anatomical reason. It is responsible for almost half of all cases of rhinitis and affects around 300 million worldwide. Assessing NAR patients’ quality of life (QoL)...

Puberty and rhinitis

1 July 2018 | | allergic multimorbidity, asthma, birth cohort, puberty, rhinitis

While asthma and rhinitis are more common in boys compared to girls in childhood, whether this trend persists after puberty or not is not yet clear. Authors inspected the European Commission funded MeDALL (Mechanisms of the Development of ALLergy) to...

IL-25 and nasal polyps, another target

1 May 2018 | | Th2 response, Chronic rhinosinusitis, interleukin 25, nasal polyp

Immune response in chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) is mainly via type 2 T-helper (Th2) cells while Th1 cells characterise chronic rhinosinusitis without nasal polyps (CRSsNP) immune response. CRSwNP is heterogeneous on a cytological level causing a varied response...