ClimAIr: AI to Assess the Impact of Pollution and Climate on Respiratory Health in Europe

NCT ID: NCT07107009

Last Updated: 2025-12-17

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Total Enrollment

1906 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2026-01-31

Study Completion Date

2027-12-31

Brief Summary

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The ClimAIr project will expand the evidence-based understanding of climate change, air pollution, and non-communicable respiratory diseases by using Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools. It will gather data on greenhouse gases levels and disaster risks, information on serious air pollutants and respiratory diseases' prevalence. The AI powered tools will be employed to generate better intervention methods and improve public health outcomes.

Federated Learning (FL) will be used to develop AI models to protect patients' privacy. By raising public awareness and delivering the ClimAIr tool - specifically designed to health workers, urban planners and policy makers - the project aims to influence policy decisions, promote healthier environments, and reduce respiratory diseases in Europe, which will be tested and validated the ClimAIr tool in specific municipalities that are part of the project. ClimAIr draws on a consortium of 21 partners from 15 European countries, including carefully selected health centres across Europe - in Spain, Luxembourg, Ukraine, Italy, France, Germany, Greece, Romania and Poland - focused on respiratory diseases, which will provide disease data and explore metabolic routes of the studied contaminants/diseases. ClimAIr is composed of an interdisciplinary team formed by research centres, ethical AI and modelling experts, SSH specialists, municipal governance, and a Communication \& Dissemination (C\&D) expert team dedicated to achieving and spread the results of the project.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Allergic Rhinitis Asthma

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

OTHER

Study Time Perspective

OTHER

Study Groups

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P01 - General Exposure Cohort

\>200 AR patients per environmental condition. Includes patients exposed to various air pollutants, aiming to detect deleterious clinical effects.

No interventions assigned to this group

P02 - Omics Synergistic Subgroup

Subgroup of 20 patients per environmental condition from P01. Selected based on exposure to multiple pollutants with observed synergistic effects on omics parameters.

No interventions assigned to this group

S01 - Allergen-Specific Immune Response Subgroup

Subgroup of 25 patients per pollution condition from P01. Selected for in vitro assays to evaluate proliferation of peripheral allergen-specific lymphocytes in response to polluted pollen exposure.

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. Patients with health insurance based in Malaga, Milan, Luxembourg, Thessalonikki, Lodz, Berlin, Toulousse, Chervnivtsi and Brasov (the places where environmental/climate information will be obtained from, only one recruitment place for partner).
2. 3-year history of chronic rhinitis symptoms during the corresponding pollen season, while residing in the same household AND attending the same school/college or holding the same job position.
3. Positive SPT and serum allergen-specific IgE \>0.35 kUA/L. The pollen species driving the nasal symptoms will be Olea europaea, Phleum pratense or Betula pendula.
4. Patients can be sensitized to other aeroallergens if the nasal symptoms occur exclusively or aggravate unequivocally during the pollen season of the three allergens of interest.

Exclusion Criteria

Lack of reliable information in e-health records, allergen immunotherapy (any allergen) during the previous 5 years, systemic immunosuppressants or biologicals in the previous six months, chronic rhinosinusitis, and severe systemic conditions.
Minimum Eligible Age

12 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Theramed Healthcare SRL (Romania)

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse, FRANCE

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Charite-Universitaetsmedizin Berlin (Germany)

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Aristotelio Panepistimio Thessalonikis (Greece)

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Uniwersytet Medyczny w Lodzi (Poland)

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Universita degli Studi di Milano (Italy)

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Bukovinian State Medical University (Ukraine)

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Luxembourg Institute of Health (Luxembourg)

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Andaluz Health Service

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role collaborator

Fundación Pública Andaluza para la Investigación de Málaga en Biomedicina y Salud

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Central Contacts

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Ibon Eguiluz Gracia, MD, PhD

Role: CONTACT

+34 951 291 073

Other Identifiers

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101156799-2 ClimAIr

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id