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. 2019 Oct;144(4):1128-1130.
doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2019.06.032. Epub 2019 Jul 6.

Food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome in the US population-based study

Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn  1 , Christopher M Warren  2 , Terri Brown-Whitehorn  3 , Antonella Cianferoni  3 , Fallon Schultz-Matney  4 , Ruchi S Gupta  2
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Food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome in the US population-based study

Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn et al. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2019 Oct.

Abstract

FPIES affects estimated 0.5% of US children and 0.2% of adults (approximately 900,000 people). These data suggest that comprehensive epidemiologic studies are needed to better characterize the public health burden of FPIES.

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Conflict of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest relevant to this article to disclose.

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