Recent estimates suggest the prevalence of food allergies to be 3% to 4%; however, little is known about prevalence of food allergy in adults. In adults, food allergy may reflect persistence of pediatric food allergy or de novo sensitization to food allergens encountered after childhood. Because many knowledge gaps exist for food allergy in adults, we sought to determine the prevalence and characteristics of food allergy in a general internal medicine clinic that serves an urban, low-income minority population.
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