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Prospective association between food sensitization and food allergy: results of the LISA birth cohort study.
Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology - 1 Mar 2010
Schnabel E, Sausenthaler S, Schaaf B, Schäfer T, Lehmann I, Behrendt H, Herbarth O, Borte M, Krämer U, von Berg A, Wichmann H-E, Heinrich J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Food allergy is common, especially in childhood, where 6-8% of children are affected. Identification of early and efficient markers for later development of food allergy is very important. OBJECTIVE: We examined the ability of repeated measurements of food sensitization in early childhood to predict doctor-diagnosed food allergy (DDFA) at the age of 6 years. METHODS: The analysis was based on data...
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