Parent-reported prevalence of food allergies in children with autism spectrum disorder: National health interview survey, 2011-2015
Autor: | Brian K. Lee, Yuling Tan, Shiny Thomas |
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Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Male
Parents Allergy medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Autism Spectrum Disorder Comorbidity behavioral disciplines and activities Interviews as Topic 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Food allergy Environmental health mental disorders Epidemiology medicine Prevalence National Health Interview Survey Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Child Genetics (clinical) business.industry General Neuroscience 05 social sciences medicine.disease Health Surveys United States Autism spectrum disorder Child Preschool Etiology Autism Female Neurology (clinical) business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Food Hypersensitivity 050104 developmental & child psychology |
Zdroj: | Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research. 12(5) |
ISSN: | 1939-3806 |
Popis: | Food allergies are frequently reported to co-occur with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but the prevalence of this co-occurrence remains uncertain. In the present study, we examined parent-reported prevalence of co-occurring food allergy and ASD in a nationally representative sample of US children ages 2-17 in the National Health Interview Survey, study years 2011-2015. All analyses used survey weights to account for the complex sampling design. In the analytic sample of 53,365 children ages 2-17, there were 905 children with parent-reported ASD (prevalence of 1.7%) and 2,977 children with parent-reported food allergy (prevalence of 5.6%). Parent-reported food allergies were nearly 2.5 times more common in children with ASD (prevalence of 13.1%) than in children without ASD (5.4%). These results indicate that food allergies commonly co-occur with ASD, which may have etiological implications. Autism Research 2019, 12: 802-805. © 2019 International Society for Autism Research, Wiley Periodicals, Inc. LAY SUMMARY: Food allergies are frequently reported to occur with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but the prevalence of this co-occurrence remains uncertain. In the present study, we examined parent-reported prevalence of co-occurring food allergy and ASD in a nationally representative sample of United States children. In the sample of 53,365 children ages 2-17, 1.7% of children were reported to have ASD, and 5.6% were reported to have food allergies. Parent-reported food allergies were nearly 2.5 times more common in children with ASD (13.1%) than in children without ASD (5.4%). |
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