Food allergy has no negative impact on children's school performance: A Swedish sibling and co-twin control study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Food allergy has been shown to negatively impact children's mental health and quality of life. However, its impact on school performance is unknown.

Objective

We aimed to investigate whether food allergy, severe and nonsevere, is associated with school performance when accounting for measured and unmeasured familial factors.

Methods

This was a register-based cohort study, with sibling controls, including all children born in Sweden 2001-5 (n = 456,164) with food allergy information based on hospital visits and prescriptions, grades, and national test results from all Swedish schools and confounders. Primary exposure was food allergy severity (none, nonsevere, or severe) in school years 7-9, and the primary outcome was total grades from year 9, with secondar

SUBMITTER: Lundholm C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11750558 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature