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ReviewCurrent allergy and asthma reports2016

Quality of Life Among Food Allergic Patients and Their Caregivers.

Christopher M Warren, Alana K Otto, Madeline M Walkner, Ruchi S Gupta

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Review in Current allergy and asthma reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 70 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
70citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
6.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

70 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 139 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Sex assigned at birth may modify health-related quality of life in children treated with peanut oral immunotherapy.Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology · 2025
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  5. Validation and reliability of the Italian versions of the Food Allergy Quality of Life -Parental Burden (FAQL-PB) and -Parent Form 10 (FAQLQ-PF10) Questionnaires.Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology · 2026
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  10. Food allergy-related bullying in children: Prevalence and psychosocial burden from a mixed-methods study.Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology · 2026
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  12. Using Biologics in the Prevention of Anaphylaxis.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2025
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  13. Food allergy-related social anxiety: Novel conceptualization of an important but overlooked construct.Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology · 2025
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  15. Effects of Food Processing on Allergenicity.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2025
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  19. Differences in familiarity with oral immunotherapy among caregivers of White and Black children with food allergy.Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology · 2024
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10 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Christopher M WarrenNorthwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 750 N Lake Shore Dr. 6th Floor, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA.
Alana K OttoAnn & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Box 86, 225 E, Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA.
Madeline M WalknerAnn & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Box 157, 225 E, Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA.
Ruchi S GuptaNorthwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 750 N Lake Shore Dr. 6th Floor, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA. r-gupta@northwestern.edu.
Lurie Children's Hospital · USNorthwestern University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Food allergy is increasing in prevalence worldwide. This review summarizes progress made studying relationships between food allergy and quality of life (QOL), with an emphasis on recent work in the field. Early work examining QOL among food allergy patients established that stress and anxiety associated with continuous allergen avoidance and the looming threat of anaphylaxis were associated with significantly impaired food allergy quality of life (FAQOL) for children with food allergy and their caregivers. Recent clinical studies suggest that undergoing oral food challenge to confirm food allergy and oral immunotherapy to treat food allergy may each improve FAQOL among both patients and their caregivers. Other intervention modalities, such as nurse-facilitated counseling and educational workshops, also hold promise, but additional work is needed. Future work must strive to recruit more representative, population-based samples, including adult patients, in order to improve the generalizability and clinical relevance of findings.

Indexed as

Food HypersensitivityAllergensAnaphylaxisCaregiversHumansImmunotherapyQuality of LifeAllergensAnaphylaxisFood allergyFood hypersensitivityPediatricsQuality of life

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PMID27048239
OpenAlexW2335704580

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