Nutritional behaviour and attitudes in food allergic children
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Methods A specific questionnaire was filled-out by 107 patients and their mothers which attend the Food Allergy Centre, Padua, Veneto. The patients (mean age 4.6) were divided into two groups: the first included 72 preschoolchildren from 0 to 5 years (mean 2.7), while the second group was made-up of 35 children from 6 to 11 (mean 8.46). A descriptive analysis was completed to investigate the nutritional behaviour and their attitude towards food. T-test was used to analyse the differences between the age groups.
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دوره 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011