Reported food intolerance and respiratory symptoms in young adults
| Autor: | Rosalie Karen Woods, Joan Raven, John M. Weiner, Eugene Haydn Walters, Michael J. Abramson, Michael Bailey |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine medicine.medical_specialty Allergy Pediatrics Passive smoking Population medicine.disease_cause Risk Factors Food allergy Surveys and Questionnaires Epidemiology Prevalence Respiratory Hypersensitivity medicine Humans education Asthma education.field_of_study business.industry digestive oral and skin physiology Australia Anthropometry medicine.disease Health Surveys Food intolerance Physical therapy Female business Food Hypersensitivity |
| Zdroj: | European Respiratory Journal. 11:151-155 |
| ISSN: | 1399-3003 0903-1936 |
| DOI: | 10.1183/09031936.98.11010151 |
| Popis: | The aim of the study was to assess the ability of the European Community Respiratory Health Survey (ECRHS) questionnaire to provide data on the prevalence, type and reported symptoms associated with food intolerance from a group of young adults in Melbourne. Six hundred and sixty nine randomly selected subjects completed the questionnaire with 553 attending the laboratory for skin-prick tests, anthropometry, and ventilatory function tests. A further 207 symptomatic participants completed the questionnaire, with 204 of them attending the laboratory. Seventeen per cent of all respondents reported food intolerance or food allergy. A wide variety of food items was cited as being responsible for food-related illnesses. Those with current asthma did not report food-related illness more frequently than those without asthma. Respondents who reported respiratory symptoms following food ingestion were more likely to be atopic, to have used inhaled respiratory medications in the previous 12 months, reported less exposure to regular passive smoking over the past 12 months and weighed more. These associations between respiratory symptoms and food intolerance require further prospective investigation and verification. The importance of using appropriate dietary methodology in future studies for determining diet-disease relationships was highlighted by this study. |
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