Health sector costs of self-reported food allergy in Europe: a patient-based cost of illness study

Fox, Margaret; Mugford, Miranda; Voordouw, Jantine; Cornelisse-Vermaat, J.R.; Antonides, Gerrit; Caballer, Belén de la Hoz; Cerecedo, Inmaculada; Zamora, Javier; Rokicka, Ewa; Jewczak, Maciej; Clark, Allan; Kowalski, Marek L.; Papadopoulos, Nikolaos G.; Knulst, André C.; Seneviratne, Suranjith L.; Bělohlávková, Simona; Asero, R; Blay, F. De; Purohit, Ashok; Clausen, Michael; Blok, Bertine Flokstra de; Dubois, Anthony; Fernández‐Rivas, Montserrat; Burney, Peter; Frewer, Lynn J.; Mills, Clare

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“…Likewise, these households may also seek significantly more contact with health care professionals than households without a food allergic child. 6 Among adolescents, we did not find a significant difference in overall direct costs between cases and controls. We suggest that there are at least 4 explanations for this observation.…”

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“…3 Others have shown that heightened parental anxiety regarding their child's food allergies 5 and poor health-related quality of life (HRQL) 5 may contribute to these higher costs in food allergic children. However, much research in this field has focused on children and adolescents as a single group, 3,4 or was restricted only to children, 6 despite suggestions that the two age groups will likely behave differently due to their developmental stages. 5 Previous reports on food allergy-associated costs are separated into direct and indirect costs, 1,3 and include socioeconomic costs and lost time and productivity, respectively.…”

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Household Costs Associated with Objectively Diagnosed Allergy to Staple Foods in Children and Adolescents

Protudjer¹,

Jansson²,

Arnlind³

et al. 2015

The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice

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Household Costs Associated with Objectively Diagnosed Allergy to Staple Foods in Children and Adolescents

Protudjer¹,

Jansson²,

Arnlind³

et al. 2015

The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice

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“…The annual total household costs were €3961 higher for children and €4792 higher for adolescents than for the controls . In addition, the higher annual healthcare costs were associated with food allergies in a European patient‐based, cost‐of‐illness study . Thus, the costs of the school lunches we evaluated in this study were only part of the total costs of food allergies to the families and to the community.…”

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National allergy programme had little impact on parent‐reported food allergies in children aged 6–7 years

Palmu

Heikkilä

Uski³

et al. 2017

Acta Paediatrica

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“…Yet, health-related quality of life does not appear to differ between the phenotypes [18]. Moreover, both phenotypes burden healthcare systems [19, 20], society [21] and households [21, 22]. …”

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Food-Related Symptoms and Food Allergy in Swedish Children from Early Life to Adolescence

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BackgroundRisk factors for persistence of food-related symptoms (FRS) and food allergy (FA) from early life to adolescence are incompletely understood. The aim of this study was to identify risk factors for FRS and FA in adolescence amongst children with FRS or FA in the first four years of life (early life).MethodsIn children enrolled in a Swedish birth cohort and followed to 16 years (n = 2572), we defined children with early life FRS in the absence of FA, and FA. Corresponding phenotypes were defined at 16 years. Associations between potential risk factors at 4 years and FRS and FA at 16 years were investigated using logistic regression.ResultsEarly life FRS and FA prevalences were 12.2% and 6.8%, respectively. Amongst children with early life FRS, 35.7% had FRS or FA at 16 years, whereas 74.3% of the children with early life FA had FA at 16 years. For each of the early life phenotypes, parental allergy, early life allergic multimorbidity, early life reactions to peanuts/tree nuts and IgE reactivity at 4 years were statistically significantly associated with FRS or FA at 16 years. In contrast, male sex was associated with an increased risk of FA at 16 years among children with early life FA only.ConclusionsIn early life, food-related symptoms are twice as common as food allergy. Unlike food allergy, food-related symptoms often remit by adolescence. Yet, these phenotypes have many common risk factors for persistence to adolescence.

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Health sector costs of self-reported food allergy in Europe: a patient-based cost of illness study

Abstract: Food allergy is associated with higher health care costs. Severity of allergic symptoms is a key explanatory factor.

Cited by 54 publications

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Household Costs Associated with Objectively Diagnosed Allergy to Staple Foods in Children and Adolescents

Household Costs Associated with Objectively Diagnosed Allergy to Staple Foods in Children and Adolescents

National allergy programme had little impact on parent‐reported food allergies in children aged 6–7 years

Food-Related Symptoms and Food Allergy in Swedish Children from Early Life to Adolescence

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