Table 1.

Prevalence of food adverse reactions in women and men found in different studies

Criteria	Female Male	Number of surveyed subjects	Study populationa	Age (years)	Reference
Food allergic patients	65.18b 34.82	17,528	Systematic search of PubMed literature	Adults (> 18 years)	[64]
Self-reported food adverse reactions	24c 14	1488	1	13–21	[3]
Self-reported food adverse reactions (Interview)	20.1b 13.4	1.943	1	From 14 years	[65]
Norwegian National Reporting System and Register	60d 40	Ca. 6500 health care professionals/year report cases	2	Adolescents	[4]
Food-dependent exercise-induced anaphylaxis	2e 1	199	1	15–35	[30]
Self-observed food adverse reactions	11.1c 8.21	20,686	1	Adults	[6]
Self-reported food adverse reactions	37.8c 25.2	1238	1	Adults	[7]
Self-reported food adverse reactions; Positive skin-test with at least 1 allergen	27.5c 14; 27.5c 22.7	1537	1	Adults	[5]
Self-reported food adverse reactions	2e 1	1253	1	18–25	[66]
Physician-diagnosed food allergy in parents of food allergic children	13.3c 8.9	1.252 mothers, 1.225 fathers	1 and 2	30–39	[67]
Electronic health record data for food allergy and intolerances, validated for peanut allergy by RAST and ImmunoCAP	4.2c 2.9	2,714,851	2	No limitation	[12]

^aStudy population: 1 = population based/community setting, 2 = hospital based

^bPercentage among allergic patients

^cPercentage among study population

^dPercent

^eRatio