Hospitalizations for Food-Induced Anaphylaxis Between 2016 and 2021: Population-Based Epidemiologic Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Food-induced anaphylaxis (FIA) is a major public health problem resulting in serious clinical complications, emergency department visits, hospitalization, and death.

Objective

This study aims to assess the epidemiology and the trends in hospitalizations because of FIA in Spain between 2016 and 2021.

Methods

An observational descriptive study was conducted using data from the Spanish National Hospital discharge database. Information was coded based on the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision. The study population was analyzed by gender and age group and according to food triggers, clinical characteristics, admission to the intensive care unit, severity, and in-hospital mortality. The annual incidence of hospitalizations because of FIA per

SUBMITTER: Jimenez-Garcia R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11387914 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature