self-reported peanut and tree-nut allergy among the general population of the United States in 2002 and compare it with prevalence rates obtained 5 years earlier. Study Population. A total of 4855 households representing a census of 13 493 participated. Methods. A nationwide, cross-sectional survey was administered by telephone to persons called by a random sampling of telephone numbers in the ...

Allergy is a detrimental hypersensitive response to innocuous environmental antigen, which is caused by the effect of interaction between environmental factors and multiple genetic pre-disposition. In the past decades, hundreds of allergy-related genes have been identified to illustrate the epidemiology and pathogenesis of allergic diseases, which are associated with better endophenotype, novel...

CONTEXT Clinicians frequently withhold antibiotics that contain penicillin based on patients' self-reported clinical history of an adverse reaction to penicillin and the clinicians' own misunderstandings about the characteristics of a true penicillin allergy. OBJECTIVES To determine the likelihood of true penicillin allergy with consideration of clinical history and to evaluate the diagnostic...

BACKGROUND Allergy to peanuts and tree nuts (TNs) is the leading cause of fatal allergic reactions in the United States, and the prevalence appears to be increasing. OBJECTIVES We sought to determine the US prevalence of self-reported peanut, TN, and sesame allergy in 2008 and compare results with comparable surveys conducted in 1997 and 2002. METHODS A nationwide, cross-sectional, random t...

Background: Coronary artery diseases (CAD) is the most common cause of death in the developing counteries.  Atherosclerosis is the leading cause of CAD. A number of studies have shown that total leukocyte count is a risk factor for CAD but there is little information on the role of eosinophilia and allergy.  The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between eosinophilia and histor...

Natural rubber latex (NRL) allergy has attained world-wide importance with the diagnosis of glove hypersensitivity, contact urticaria, rhinitis, conjunctivitis, asthma and anaphylaxis. In the present report, the latest literature of the epidemiology of NRL allergy is reviewed, an account on the incidence of NRL allergy (19 new cases of contact urticaria/100,000 workers per year) among health ca...

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The present study investigated the current state of unnecessary children food allergy accommodation and the medical efforts to confirm the existence of food allergies in school lunch service kitchens in Okinawa, Japan, including kitchens accommodating food allergy students by requiring medical documentation at the start and during provisions being made (Double Diagnosis), requiring medical docu...

in order to identify the risk factors (predictors) of re-hospitalisation for high-risk asthmatic patients, a retrospective logistic regression analysis describing the relationship between the probability of re-admission and possible predictors in hospitalised asthmatics, aged over 5 years, between 1994-1998, was designed. study setting was a district general hospital in the west yorkshire, uk. ...