Table 2.

IgE, EO and selected characteristics of the 108 adoptive children attending the International Adoption Unit at Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy between September 2012 and July 2016 - estimated Z-scores from the multivariate probit model (NI: variable not included in the multivariate analysis because - not significant at the univariate analysis, −excluded by stepwise algorithm, 95%CI: 95% confidence intervals)

	ALL		Total IgE levels						Eosinophil counts
	N	col%	N	row%	p	coef	(95%CI)	p	N	row%	p	coef	(95%CI)	p
country of origin					0.159	NI					0.370	NI
africa	24	22.22	14	73.68					3	13.64
latin america	14	12.96	5	45.45					1	7.69
asia	15	13.89	5	50.00					1	6.67
eastern europe	52	48.15	22	52.38					4	7.69
missing	3	2.78	2	66.67					0	0.00
sex					0.764	NI					0.103
F	41	37.96	18	54.55					1	2.56		ref
M	67	62.04	30	57.69					8	12.12		0.64	(−0.19; 1.46)	0.131
age, years					0.249	NI					0.312	NI
< 3	26	24.07	8	44.44					1	3.85
3–5	36	33.33	17	60.71					4	11.76
6+	45	41.67	23	60.53					4	9.09
missing	1	0.93	0	0.00					0	0.00
poor growth by age & sex					0.959	NI					0.558	NI
no	16	14.81	8	57.14					2	12.5
yes	92	85.19	40	56.34					7	7.87
stool parasites					0.183						0.367	NI
no	84	77.78	33	51.56		ref			6	7.32
yes	23	21.3	15	71.43		0.52	(−0.33; 1.37)	0.228	3	13.64
missing	1	0.93	0	0.00					0	0.00
vaccination card					0.449	NI					0.488	NI
no	48	44.44	23	62.16					5	10.64
yes	60	55.56	25	52.08					4	6.90