Table 3.

Food, inhalant immunoCAP specific IgE 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; sIgE: specific IgE, 95%CI: 95% confidence intervals)

	ALL		ImmunoCAP inhalant sIgE						ImmunoCAP food sIgE
	N	col%	N	row%	p	coef	(95% CI)	p	N	row%	p	coef	(95%CI)	p
country of origin					0.755	NI					0.856	NI
africa	24	22.22	6	37.5					5	29.41
latin america	14	12.96	4	50					2	25
asia	15	13.89	1	14.29					3	33.33
eastern europe	52	48.15	12	33.33					12	33.33
missing	3	2.78	1	33.33					0	0.00
sex					0.717	NI					0.715	NI
F	41	37.96	10	37.04					8	27.59
M	67	62.04	14	32.56					14	31.82
age, years					0.072						0.948	NI
< 3	26	24.07	2	14.29		ref			5	31.25
3–5	36	33.33	10	43.48		0.67	(−0.29; 1.63)	0.170	10	38.46
6+	45	41.67	12	37.50		0.62	(−0.38; 1.43)	0.253	7	23.33
missing	1	0.93	0	0.00					0	0.00
poor growth by age & sex					0.356	NI					0.507	NI
no	16	14.81	3	23.08					3	23.08
yes	92	85.19	21	36.84					19	31.67
stool parasites					0.192	NI					0.987	NI
no	84	77.78	15	29.41					16	30.19
yes	23	21.3	9	47.37					6	30.00
missing	1	0.93	0	0.00					0	0.00
vaccination card					0.631	NI					0.851	NI
no	48	44.44	10	31.25					10	31.25
yes	60	55.56	14	36.84					12	29.27