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ReviewClinical reviews in allergy & immunology2019

Regional Differences in Food Allergies.

Rui Tang, Zi-Xi Wang, Chun-Mei Ji, Patrick S C Leung, Elena Woo, Christopher Chang, Meng Wang, Bin Liu, Ji-Fu Wei, Jin-Lyu Sun

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Review in Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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15citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Food Allergy in Children in China.Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2025
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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

10 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Rui TangDepartment of Allergy, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine for Diagnosis and Treatment on Allergic Diseases, No.1 Shuaifuyuan, East District, Beijing, 100730, People's Republic of China.
Zi-Xi WangDepartment of Allergy, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine for Diagnosis and Treatment on Allergic Diseases, No.1 Shuaifuyuan, East District, Beijing, 100730, People's Republic of China.
Chun-Mei JiResearch Division of Clinical Pharmacology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, No300, Guangzhou Road, Nanjing, 210029, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China.
Patrick S C LeungDivision of Rheumatology, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University of California at Davis, 451 E Health Sciences Drive, Suite 6510, Davis, CA, 95616, USA.
Elena WooDivision of Rheumatology, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University of California at Davis, 451 E Health Sciences Drive, Suite 6510, Davis, CA, 95616, USA.
Christopher ChangDivision of Rheumatology, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University of California at Davis, 451 E Health Sciences Drive, Suite 6510, Davis, CA, 95616, USA.
Meng WangSchool of Medicine, Tsinghua University, No.1 Tsinghuayuan, Haidian District, Beijing, 100084, People's Republic of China.
Bin LiuDepartment of Immunology and Rheumatology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266001, Shandong, People's Republic of China. binliu72314@163.com.
Ji-Fu WeiResearch Division of Clinical Pharmacology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, No300, Guangzhou Road, Nanjing, 210029, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China. weijifu@hotmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6412-3251
Jin-Lyu SunDepartment of Allergy, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine for Diagnosis and Treatment on Allergic Diseases, No.1 Shuaifuyuan, East District, Beijing, 100730, People's Republic of China. sunjl5@yahoo.com.
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College · CNJiangsu Province Hospital · CNUniversity of California, Davis · USJoe DiMaggio Children's Hospital · USQingdao University · CNTsinghua University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The prevalence of food allergies is increasing worldwide. To understand the regional specificities of food allergies and develop effective therapeutic interventions, extensive regional epidemiological studies are necessary. While data regarding incidence, prevalence, regional variation, and treatment in food allergies are available for western countries, such studies may not be available in many Asian countries. China accounts for almost 20% of the world's population and has a vast ethnic diversity, but large-scale meta-analyses of epidemiological studies of food allergy in China are lacking. A literature search revealed 22 publications on the prevalence of food allergy in Chinese populations. A review of these studies showed that the prevalence of food allergies in China is comparable to that in western countries, even though the Chinese diet is vastly different from that of the West and may vary even greatly within China, and finally, specific antigenic triggers of food allergy vary between China and the West and also within China. Current clinical management of food allergy in China includes allergen-specific immunotherapy, Chinese herbal medicine, acupuncture, and Western medicine. This study demonstrates an unmet need in China for a thorough investigation of the prevalence of food allergies in China, the specific foods involved, and characterization of the specific antigenic triggers of food allergy with respect to ethnicity, age, and diet in China.

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AdolescentAnimalsChildChild, PreschoolChinaCitiesDesensitization, ImmunologicDietDrugs, Chinese HerbalFemaleFood HypersensitivityHumansImmunoglobulin EIncidenceInfantInfant, NewbornDrugs, Chinese HerbalImmunoglobulin EOmalizumabFood allergyImmunotherapyIncidencePrevalenceTherapyType

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