Epidemiology of Food Allergy

Joan H. Dunlop; Corinne A. Keet

doi:10.1016/j.iac.2017.09.002

Epidemiology of Food Allergy

Joan H. Dunlop, Corinne A. Keet

School of Medicine

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Abstract

Understanding the epidemiology of food allergy is complicated by the difficulty of identifying it on a large scale. The prevalence of food allergy is higher in younger age groups and decreases with age. Allergy to peanut and egg seems to be more common in Northern Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia compared with Southern Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia, whereas shellfish and fish allergies may be more common in Asia. The rate of transient unrecognized food allergy may be high and variable recognition of food allergy may explain some of the differences seen in food allergy prevalence.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	13-25
Number of pages	13
Journal	Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America
Volume	38
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iac.2017.09.002
State	Published - Feb 2018

Keywords

Age
Epidemiology
Ethnic groups
Food allergy
Geography
Population
Prevalence

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Immunology and Allergy
Immunology

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