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Reported food allergies, serum immunoglobulin E antibody levels for specific foods, ambulatory care visits, and hospitalizations were assessed.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>RESULTS: In 2007, 3.9% of US children &amp;lt;18 years of age had reported food allergy. The prevalence of reported food allergy increased 18% (z = 3.4; P &amp;lt; .01) from 1997 through 2007. In 2005\u20132006, serum immunoglobulin E antibodies to peanut were detectable for an estimated 9% of US children. Ambulatory care visits tripled between 1993 and 2006 (P &amp;lt; .01). From 2003 through 2006, an estimated average of 317000 food allergy-related, ambulatory care visits per year (95% confidence interval: 195000\u2013438000 visits per year) to emergency and outpatient departments and physician's offices were reported. Hospitalizations with any recorded diagnoses related to food allergy also increased between 1998\u20132000 and 2004\u20132006, from an average of 2600 discharges per year to 9500 discharges per year (z = 3.4; P &amp;lt; .01), possibly because of increased use of food allergy V codes.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>CONCLUSION: Several national health surveys indicate that food allergy prevalence and\/or awareness has increased among US children in recent years.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1542\/peds.2009-1210","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,11,16]],"date-time":"2009-11-16T20:34:38Z","timestamp":1258403678000},"page":"1549-1555","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":601,"title":["Food Allergy Among Children in the United States"],"prefix":"10.1542","volume":"124","author":[{"given":"Amy M.","family":"Branum","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Infant, Child, and Women's Health Statistics Branch, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, Maryland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Susan L.","family":"Lukacs","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Infant, Child, and Women's Health Statistics Branch, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, Maryland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"417","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2009,12,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"2021120905214410000_R1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Sicherer SH, Sampson HA. 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