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The association between overweight and prevalence of food allergy in Japanese children: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Food allergy (FA) is a common disease in children, and its prevalence has increased in developed countries. The impact of overweight on children health also becomes an important social problem. However, the relationship between overweight and FA is still unclear. We examined the associat...

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Autores principales: Hayashi, Koichiro, Tsujiguchi, Hiromasa, Hori, Daisuke, Yamada, Yohei, Shimizu, Yukari, Nguyen, Thao Thi Thu, Hibino, Yuri, Kambayashi, Yasuhiro, Hara, Akinori, Nakamura, Hiroyuki
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8022372/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33820527
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12199-021-00960-2
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author Hayashi, Koichiro
Tsujiguchi, Hiromasa
Hori, Daisuke
Yamada, Yohei
Shimizu, Yukari
Nguyen, Thao Thi Thu
Hibino, Yuri
Kambayashi, Yasuhiro
Hara, Akinori
Nakamura, Hiroyuki
author_facet Hayashi, Koichiro
Tsujiguchi, Hiromasa
Hori, Daisuke
Yamada, Yohei
Shimizu, Yukari
Nguyen, Thao Thi Thu
Hibino, Yuri
Kambayashi, Yasuhiro
Hara, Akinori
Nakamura, Hiroyuki
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description BACKGROUND: Food allergy (FA) is a common disease in children, and its prevalence has increased in developed countries. The impact of overweight on children health also becomes an important social problem. However, the relationship between overweight and FA is still unclear. We examined the association between overweight and the prevalence of FA among Japanese children. METHODS: We analyzed data obtained using a self-administered questionnaire from 1772 Japanese children. Weight groups according to body mass index cutoff points proposed by the International Obesity Task Force were used to create two groups: overweight and non-overweight. Children were separated into four age groups (3–6 years, 6–9 years, 9–12 years, and 12–15 years) to examine age differences. We performed univariate and multivariate logistic models to examine the association between overweight and FA. RESULTS: The prevalence of FA was significantly higher in boys (10.6%, p = 0.014) than girls (4.5%) and girls (7.9%, p = 0.012) than boys (2.5%) for 6–9 and 12–15 age groups, respectively. While the prevalence of FA was significantly higher in overweight than non-overweight girls (26.1%, p = 0.005) in the 12–15 age group, no significant difference was found in boys. In girls, overweight was significantly associated with FA after adjustment for age and asthma (odds ratio 1.99, 95% confidence interval 1.01–3.89, p = 0.046). CONCLUSIONS: Our results showed that being overweight was significantly associated with a higher prevalence of FA in girls, but not in boys. Further prospective studies are necessary to find the causal relationship between overweight and FA.
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spelling pubmed-80223722021-04-07 The association between overweight and prevalence of food allergy in Japanese children: a cross-sectional study Hayashi, Koichiro Tsujiguchi, Hiromasa Hori, Daisuke Yamada, Yohei Shimizu, Yukari Nguyen, Thao Thi Thu Hibino, Yuri Kambayashi, Yasuhiro Hara, Akinori Nakamura, Hiroyuki Environ Health Prev Med Research Article BACKGROUND: Food allergy (FA) is a common disease in children, and its prevalence has increased in developed countries. The impact of overweight on children health also becomes an important social problem. However, the relationship between overweight and FA is still unclear. We examined the association between overweight and the prevalence of FA among Japanese children. METHODS: We analyzed data obtained using a self-administered questionnaire from 1772 Japanese children. Weight groups according to body mass index cutoff points proposed by the International Obesity Task Force were used to create two groups: overweight and non-overweight. Children were separated into four age groups (3–6 years, 6–9 years, 9–12 years, and 12–15 years) to examine age differences. We performed univariate and multivariate logistic models to examine the association between overweight and FA. RESULTS: The prevalence of FA was significantly higher in boys (10.6%, p = 0.014) than girls (4.5%) and girls (7.9%, p = 0.012) than boys (2.5%) for 6–9 and 12–15 age groups, respectively. While the prevalence of FA was significantly higher in overweight than non-overweight girls (26.1%, p = 0.005) in the 12–15 age group, no significant difference was found in boys. In girls, overweight was significantly associated with FA after adjustment for age and asthma (odds ratio 1.99, 95% confidence interval 1.01–3.89, p = 0.046). CONCLUSIONS: Our results showed that being overweight was significantly associated with a higher prevalence of FA in girls, but not in boys. Further prospective studies are necessary to find the causal relationship between overweight and FA. BioMed Central 2021-04-05 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8022372/ /pubmed/33820527 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12199-021-00960-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Hayashi, Koichiro
Tsujiguchi, Hiromasa
Hori, Daisuke
Yamada, Yohei
Shimizu, Yukari
Nguyen, Thao Thi Thu
Hibino, Yuri
Kambayashi, Yasuhiro
Hara, Akinori
Nakamura, Hiroyuki
The association between overweight and prevalence of food allergy in Japanese children: a cross-sectional study
title The association between overweight and prevalence of food allergy in Japanese children: a cross-sectional study
title_full The association between overweight and prevalence of food allergy in Japanese children: a cross-sectional study
title_fullStr The association between overweight and prevalence of food allergy in Japanese children: a cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed The association between overweight and prevalence of food allergy in Japanese children: a cross-sectional study
title_short The association between overweight and prevalence of food allergy in Japanese children: a cross-sectional study
title_sort association between overweight and prevalence of food allergy in japanese children: a cross-sectional study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8022372/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33820527
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12199-021-00960-2
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