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Food allergies /
Most people take eating for granted - but for some, eating can be downright dangerous. Thirty thousand Americans are hospitalized each year due to an allergic food reaction and peanut allergies in American children doubled from 1997 to 2002. Between two and ten percent of children are affected by fo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Westport, Connecticut ; London [England] :
Greenwood Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Biographies of disease.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Most people take eating for granted - but for some, eating can be downright dangerous. Thirty thousand Americans are hospitalized each year due to an allergic food reaction and peanut allergies in American children doubled from 1997 to 2002. Between two and ten percent of children are affected by food allergies worldwide and adverse food reactions increased hospital admissions by five hundred percent in the United Kingdom during the past two decades. Asthma cases, a reliable indicator of food allergy susceptibility, increased one hundred percent during the last thirty years. While most peopl. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (202 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780313352744 0313352747 |
| ISSN: | 1940-445X |