94% of researchers rate our articles as excellent or good
Learn more about the work of our research integrity team to safeguard the quality of each article we publish.
Find out more
ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Nutr.
Sec. Nutritional Epidemiology
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fnut.2025.1544889
Association between alcohol consumption and allergic rhinitis in US adults
Provisionally accepted- 1 Affiliated Suzhou Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Suzhou, Liaoning Province, China
- 2 Suzhou Municipal Hospital, Suzhou, China
- 3 The Second Affiliated Hospital of Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang, China
Introduction: Increasing evidence that alcohol use may be linked to allergy diseases. The objective of this cross-sectional analysis to ascertain the correlation between alcohol consumption pattern and allergic rhinitis (AR) in US adults.Methods: Cross-sectional research was conducted on 2179 individuals above the age of 20 who took part in the AR and alcohol consumption pattern estimation of the 2005-2006 NHANES database. "Never" (less than 12 drinks in a lifetime), "Now" (currently drinking), and "Former" (prior history of drinking, no longer drinking) were used to categorize the alcohol consumption pattern. Then we evaluated the relationship between alcohol consumption pattern and AR by adjusting several comorbidities in males and females.Results: Individuals who currently consume alcohol are more likely to exhibit elevated levels of total IgE and cat/dog dander IgE compared to non-consumers. Compared to "Never" in the male group, "Now" (currently drinking) was positively associated with AR in both the partially adjusting analysis and the completely adjusting model. Nevertheless, we did not find any positive relationship between alcohol consumption pattern and AR in the female group, which suggests that current drinking was linked to a higher prevalence of AR in males, but not in females.We discovered that current drinking was positively associated with a high prevalence of AR in males.
Keywords: allergic rhinitis, allergy, alcohol, Alcohol consumption, NHANES
Received: 13 Dec 2024; Accepted: 06 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 He, Xu and Lin. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Zhiqiang Lin, Suzhou Municipal Hospital, Suzhou, China
Disclaimer: All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.