Temporal trends and racial/ethnic disparity in self-reported pediatric food allergy in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The prevalence of food allergy is thought to be increasing, but data from the United States have not been systematically synthesized.

Objective

To summarize the data on prevalence of food allergy in the US pediatric population and to estimate the effects of time, race/ethnicity, and method of assessing food allergy on the estimated prevalence.

Methods

Embase, MEDLINE, bibliographies of identified reports, and data from publically available data sets were searched. Studies were limited to those in English with data from the general pediatric US population. Study synthesis was performed by meta-analysis and meta-regression to estimate the effect of study- and participant-level covariates. Meta-regression was limited to nationally representative surveys conduc

SUBMITTER: Keet CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3950907 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature