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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2018

The Epidemiology of Food Allergy in the Global Context.

Wenyin Loh, Mimi L K Tang

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04770727 (Feasibility of a Group Intervention Using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy), which is not on this map. Cited by 219 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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219citing papers in PubMed, 7 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

NCT04770727 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2021, after this paper: background citation

Feasibility of a Group Intervention Using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to Reduce Anxiety for Children Aged 12-17 With Food Allergy.

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of SurreyRan2021 to 2022Enrolled52ConditionsFood Allergy in ChildrenArmsCBT workshop
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

219 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 516 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Machine learning-derived asthma and allergy trajectories in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2025
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  9. Daily egg intake may reduce sensitisation to common allergenic foods among six- to nine-month-old south African infants: A randomized controlled trial.Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology · 2025
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  11. Association of early life anti-pathogen immune responses with infant food sensitisation and allergy: An elastic-net stability-selection approach.Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Wenyin LohAllergy and Immune Disorders, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne 3052, Australia. wenyin.loh@mcri.edu.au.
Mimi L K TangAllergy and Immune Disorders, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne 3052, Australia. Mimi.Tang@rch.org.au.ORCID 0000-0002-3839-5293
KK Women's and Children's Hospital · SGRoyal Children's Hospital · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is a lack of high-quality evidence based on the gold standard of oral food challenges to determine food allergy prevalence. Nevertheless, studies using surrogate measures of food allergy, such as health service utilization and clinical history, together with allergen-specific immunoglobulin E (sIgE), provide compelling data that the prevalence of food allergy is increasing in both Western and developing countries. In Western countries, challenge-diagnosed food allergy has been reported to be as high as 10%, with the greatest prevalence noted among younger children. There is also growing evidence of increasing prevalence in developing countries, with rates of challenge-diagnosed food allergy in China and Africa reported to be similar to that in Western countries. An interesting observation is that children of East Asian or African descent born in a Western environment are at higher risk of food allergy compared to Caucasian children; this intriguing finding emphasizes the importance of genome-environment interactions and forecasts future increases in food allergy in Asia and Africa as economic growth continues in these regions. While cow's milk and egg allergy are two of the most common food allergies in most countries, diverse patterns of food allergy can be observed in individual geographic regions determined by each country's feeding patterns. More robust studies investigating food allergy prevalence, particularly in Asia and the developing world, are necessary to understand the extent of the food allergy problem and identify preventive strategies to cope with the potential increase in these regions.

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Bayes TheoremFemaleFood HypersensitivityGlobal HealthHumansMalePrevalenceAsiafood allergyprevalencetime trendsWesternized countries

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