Prevalence of Rhinitis in Athletes: Systematic Review

Table 1

Prevalence of Rhinitis in Athletes.

Study	Design	Participants ()	Number of participants per environment	Diagnosis	AR	NAR	Rhinitis (AR + NAR)
Katelaris et al. (2000) [14]	Cohort study	214	96 L, 118 W, 0 CA	Quest. + SPT	41%
Bonadonna et al. (2001) [15]	Cohort study	144	0 L, 0 W, 46 CA	Self-reported physician diagnosis			46%
Alaranta et al. (2005) [16]	Case-control study	446 + 1504 controls	266 L + W, 180 CA	Self-reported physician diagnosis	36.1%
Silvers and Poole (2006) [17]	Cohort study	55	55 L, 0 W, 0 CA	Self-reported physician diagnosis	49%
Katelaris et al. (2006) [18]	Cohort study	980	980 W + L, 0 CA	Quest. + SPT	24%
Macucci et al. (2007) [19]	Cohort study	352	352 L, 0 W, 0 CA	Quest. + SPT	22.16%
Bonini et al. (2007) [20]	Case-control study	98	98 W + L, 0 CA	Quest. + SPT	34.7%
Rong et al. (2008) [21]	Case-control study	23 + 30 controls	0 L, 23 W, 0 CA	Self-reported physician diagnosis	56.5%
Clearie et al. (2010) [22]	Cohort study	61	61 W	Physician diagnosis			40%
Thomas et al. (2010) [23]	Cohort study	291	291 L + W, 0 CA	Self-reported physician diagnosis	25.4%
Bougault et al. (2010) [8]	Case-control study	39 + 30 controls	0 L, 39 W, 0 CA	Physician diagnosis + SPT			74%
Kurowski et al. (2016) [7]	Cohort study	222	214 L, 8 W, 0 CA	Physician diagnosis + SPT	21%	6%	27%
Bonini et al. (2015) [24]	Cohort study	659	606 L, 38 W, 15 CA	Quest. + SPT	26.2%

L: land, W: water, and CA: cold air.