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Black children have significantly higher rates of shellfish and fish allergies than White children, in addition to having higher odds of wheat allergy, suggesting that race may play an important role in how children are affected by food allergies, researchers at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children s Hospital of Chicago, Rush University Medical Center and two other hospitals have found.
Results of the study were published in the February issue of the
Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice. Food allergy is a common condition in the U.S., and we know from our previous research that there are important differences between Black and White children with food allergy, but there is so much we need to know to be able to help our patients from minority groups, said Mahboobeh Mahdavinia, MD, PhD, who is first author of the study and chief of the Division of Allergy and Immunology at the Medical Center. In this current paper, our goal was to understand whether
Black children have significantly higher rates of shellfish and fish allergies than white children, confirming that race plays an important role in how children are affected by food allergies, researchers at Rush University Medical Center have found.
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Black children have significantly higher rates of shellfish and fish allergies than white children, confirming that race plays an important role in how children are affected by food allergies, researchers at Rush University Medical Center have found. Results of the study were published in the February issue of the
Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice. Food allergy is a common condition in the U.S., and we know from our previous research that there are important differences between African-American and white children with food allergy, but there is so much we need to know to be able to help our patients from minority groups, said Dr. Mahboobeh Mahdavinia, who is lead author of the study and chief of the Division of Allergy and Immunology at the Medical Center.