The epidemiology of food allergy in Europe: protocol for a systematic review

Clinical and Translational Allergy

Aziz Sheikh³  Graham Roberts⁴  Karin Hoffmann-Sommergruber⁵  Antonella Muraro²  Thomas Werfel¹  Tamara Rader⁷  Lennart Hickstein⁶  Sukhmeet S Panesar³  Bright I Nwaru⁸ 

[1] Hanover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, Hanover,, 30625,Germany;Padua General University Hospital, Via Giustiniani 3, Padua, 35128, Italy;University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, UK;Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO171BJ, UK;Medical University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 23, Vienna, 1090, Austria;Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Leopoldstr. 3, Munich, 018a 80802, Germany;University of Ottawa, 75 Laurier Avenue East, Ottawa, ON, K1N 6N5, Canada;University of Tampere, Kalevantie 4, FI-33014, Finland

关键词: Incidence;    Prevalence;    Epidemiology;    Anaphylaxis;    Risk;    IgE-mediated;    Food allergy;   

Others  :  794356
DOI  :  10.1186/2045-7022-3-13

 received in 2013-02-17, accepted in 2013-03-23,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

The European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology is in the process of developing its Guideline for Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis, and this protocol of a systematic review is one of seven inter-linked evidence syntheses that are being undertaken in order to provide a state-of-the-art synopsis of the current evidence base in relation to epidemiology, prevention, diagnosis and clinical management and impact on quality of life, which will be used to inform the formulation of clinical recommendations.

The aims of the systematic review will be to understand and describe the epidemiology of food allergy, i.e. frequency, risk factors and outcomes of patients suffering from food allergy, and to describe how these characteristics vary by person, place and time.

Methods

A highly sensitive search strategy has been developed to retrieve articles that have investigated the various aspects of the epidemiology of food allergy. The search will be implemented by combining the concepts of food allergy and its epidemiology from electronic bibliographic databases.

Discussion

This systematic review will provide the most up to date estimates of the frequency of food allergy in Europe. We will attempt to break these down by age and geographical region in Europe. Our analysis will take into account the suitability of the study design and the respective study biases that could affect exposure and outcome. We will examine the different methods to diagnose food allergy and the associated measures of occurrence.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Nwaru et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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