Food Addiction Symptoms and Clinical Outcomes in Binge-Type Eating Disorders: A Randomized Clinical Trial of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy-Guided Self-Help in China.

Allergic rhinitis is an inflammatory disorder of the nasal mucosa characterised by nasal congestion, rhinorrhoea, sneezing and nasal itching, all of which can negatively affect respiratory function. These symptoms frequently coexist with structural abnormalities such as septal deviation, and substantially diminish patients’ quality of life. As a chronic inflammatory condition, allergic rhinitis has the potential to influence the outcomes of various respiratory and nasal surgical procedures, prompting numerous investigations into its impact on post-operative results. There is substantial evidence that both septorhinoplasty and septoplasty lead to improvements in quality of life and reductions in allergy-related symptoms among patients with allergic rhinitis. Moreover, several studies have demonstrated significant post-operative improvements in both allergic and non-allergic individuals, indicating that nasal surgery can be safely performed in the presence of allergic rhinitis and can yield meaningful functional benefits regardless of underlying allergic status. While the limited number of studies in the literature have primarily focused on aesthetic outcomes or overall symptom improvement following septorhinoplasty, few have offered a comprehensive evaluation that simultaneously examines scar healing, nasal function, aesthetic satisfaction and changes in allergy-related symptoms. Addressing this gap, our prospective controlled trial was designed to compare allergic and non-allergic patients across all of these domains, with the aim of providing holistic and objective data on how underlying allergic status may influence post-operative recovery, symptom trajectories and patient-reported outcomes. We believe that this multidimensional and comparative approach will offer a more complete understanding of septorhinoplasty outcomes than what is currently available in the literature and will contribute meaningful new perspectives to clinical practice.