Food Allergies Doubled in a Decade, Study Finds

Published on August 29, 2024

A new study has revealed the number of people with a food allergy has more than doubled over a decade, from 0.4 percent of the population in 2008 to 1.2 percent in 2018. Researchers at Imperial College, London, found the sharpest increase was in preschool-aged children, with 4 percent of under-5s having some form of food allergy in 2018, which is up from 1.2 percent in 2008. Food allergy prevalence in children aged 5 to 9 was 2.4 percent, while it stood at 1.7 percent for 15- to 19-year-olds and 0.7 percent for all adults over 19 in 2018, data showed. Experts analysed data from 13 million patients at GP practices in England, making it the largest study of its kind anywhere in the world with the findings published in the Lancet Public Health journal....

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