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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2019 Jun 22;8(1):336–338.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.jaip.2019.06.006

Table 1: Associations of Race/Ethnicity and SES with Food-Specific IgE.

Data from 647 adolescents participating in Project Viva who had IgE samples

Milk Egg Peanut Soy Wheat
Adjusted odds ratio or prevalence ratio* (95% CI) for food specific IgE >0.35 k/UL
Adolescent race/ethnicity
. Non-Hispanic White 1.0 (ref) 1.0 (ref) 1.0 (ref) 1.0 (ref) 1.0 (ref)
. Non-Hispanic Black 1.42 (0.75, 2.68) 1.78 (0.84, 3.77) 2.29 (1.54, 3.39) 1.68 (0.86, 3.28) 1.64 (1.15, 2.34)
. Hispanic 1.55 (0.73, 3.27) 1.75 (0.72, 4.26) 1.28 (0.70, 2.23) 1.32 (0.55, 3.12) 0.66 (0.33, 1.31)
. Other 0.96 (0.39, 2.37) 1.80 (0.74, 4.39) 2.25 (1.41, 3.58) 1.94 (0.87, 4.31) 1.45 (0.92, 2.28)
Maternal education
. <College 3.00 (1.46, 6.16) 1.53 (0.68, 3.46) 1.70 (0.94, 3.07) 1.31 (0.63, 2.69) 1.23 (0.69, 2.17)
. College graduate 1.68 (0.85, 3.35) 1.30 (0.61, 2.75) 1.53 (0.89, 2.63) 1.13 (0.58, 2.19) 1.73 (1.06, 2.81)
. Graduate degree 1.0 (ref) 1.0 (ref) 1.0 (ref) 1.0 (ref) 1.0 (ref)
Smoked during pregnancy (yes v. no) 0.76 (0.31, 1.84) 0.86 (0.32, 2.31) 1.80 (0.97, 3.34) 1.76 (0.84, 3.71) 1.37 (0.73, 2.54)
Annual household income
. <$40,000 1.42 (0.63, 3.20) 1.33 (0.51, 3.42) 1.37 (0.67, 2.77) 1.22 (0.48, 3.13) 0.63 (0.30, 1.32)
. $40,001-70,000 1.29 (0.68, 2.48) 0.91 (0.40, 2.08) 1.61 (0.92, 2.81) 2.02 (1.05, 3.89) 1.30 (0.78, 2.18)
. >$70,000 1.0 (ref) 1.0 (ref) 1.0 (ref) 1.0 (ref) 1.0 (ref)
Any smokers at home in first year (yes v. no) 0.80 (0.36, 1.78) 0.44 (0.15, 1.32) 0.69 (0.34, 1.37) 1.17 (0.54, 2.56) 0.86 (0.46, 1.62)
Census tract median household income (lowest quartile v. upper 3 quartiles) 1.24 (0.65, 2.38) 1.59 (0.75, 3.39) 0.78 (0.44, 1.36) 0.90 (0.44, 1.81) 0.72 (0.41, 1.25)

All models adjusted for adolescent age, sex, and race/ethnicity and parental history of atopy

*

Prevalence ratio used in models with common outcomes instead of odds ratio (associations of adolescent race/ethnicity with peanut and wheat IgE)