TABLE 1.
Demographics of 216 children providing evaluable stool samples for food sensitization and food allergy analysis
| Food sensitization N=85 |
No food sensitization N=131 |
P | Food allergy N=14 |
No food allergy N=202 |
P | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milk | 67 (79) | 3 (21) | ||||
| Egg | 48 (56) | 9 (64) | ||||
| Peanut | 28 (33) | 8 (57) | ||||
| Soy | 15 (18) | 2 (14) | ||||
| Wheat | 33 (39) | 3 (21) | ||||
| Walnut | 11 (13) | 2 (14) | ||||
| Race | ||||||
| African American | 47 (55) | 46 (35) | .02 | 7 (50) | 86 (43) | .67 |
| Hispanic | 16 (19) | 45 (34) | 3 (21) | 58 (29) | ||
| White | 16 (19) | 33 (25) | 4 (29) | 45 (22) | ||
| Other | 6 (7) | 7 (5) | 0 | 13 (6) | ||
| Vitamin D Treatmenta | 48 (57) | 77 (59) | .74 | 8 (57) | 117 (58) | .96 |
| Female | 38 (45) | 65 (50) | .48 | 8 (57) | 98 (47) | .46 |
| C-section | 25 (29) | 44 (34) | .52 | 8 (57) | 61 (30) | .04 |
| Formula Fed | 63 (74) | 84 (64) | .12 | 9 (64) | 138 (68) | .75 |
| Breast fed | 32 (38) | 56 (44) | .38 | 7 (50) | 81 (41) | .50 |
| Solid food | 45 (54) | 53 (41) | .05 | 8 (57) | 90 (45) | .38 |
| Age at infant stool collection (mean, range) | 148 (92–208) | 140 (78–206) | .95 | 153 (115–208) | 142 (78–206) | .87 |
| Read counts of microbial sample (mean, range) | 5282 (1726–12 655) | 5310 (1236–19 917) | .48 | 5351 (2281–9387) | 5295 (1236–19 917) | .53 |
a
High-dose vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy, as part of the Vitamin D Antenatal Asthma Reduction Trial study.