Table 2. Characteristics of the patient sample.

	Total1	FAG2		PAG3
		Pollen	Non-pollen
Number of patients	329	169	43	117
Sex4	112M 217F	57M 112F	15M 28F	40M 77F
Age range	08–62	18–59	08–56	15–62
Food Allergy Symptoms (%)
Rhinitis	61	95	0	87
Asthma	27	34	4	43
Oral allergy syndrome	35	52	54	0
Anaphylactic reaction	14	18	25	0
Urticaria	31	63	28	2
Angio-edema	10	16	14	0
Gastrointestinal	5	9	6	0
Others	2	4	2	0
SPT (%) *
Mugwort pollen	42	50	31	45
Cypress pollen	24	28	13	31
Grass pollen	55	51	27	88
Plane pollen	36	54	23	31
Olive pollen	34	45	18	39
Pellitory pollen	7	5	4	13

¹Total, all patients;

²FAG, Fruit-allergic patients;

³PAG, Pollen-allergic food-tolerant patients;

⁴M, male; F, female;

^*SPTs with purified protein were performed in a selected group of patients of 50 FAG, 20 PAG and 20 non-pollen food-tolerant subjects.