TABLE I.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of 817^* patients with IgE-mediated food allergy visited at Rush University Medical Center and Cincinnati Children Hospital Medical Center between 2008 and 2014

Characteristic	RUMC Number or mean n = 354	CCHMC Number or mean n = 463
Race
White	99 (28.9%)	334 (72.1%)
African American	173 (48.8%)	112 (24.2%)
Hispanic	82 (23.2%)	17 (3.7%)
Gender
Male	198 (56.2%)	305 (65.9%)
Female	154 (43.7%)	158 (34.1%)
Age in years at time of chart review (mean ± SD)	7.97 ± 4.38	7.70 ± 4.18
Asthma (%)
Yes	146 (41.2%)	206 (44.5%)
No	208 (58.8%)	257 (55.5%)
Allergic
Rhinitis (%)
Yes	239 (67.9%)	259 (55.9%)
No	110 (31.0%)	204 (44.1%)
Eczema (%)
Yes	239 (67.7%)	129 (27.9%)
No	110 (31.1%)	334 (72.1%)
Insurance (%)
Medicaid	173 (49.0%)	72 (15.5%)
Private	180 (50.9%)	391 (84.5%)

CCHMC, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; RUMC, Rush University Medical Center; SD, standard deviation.

The sum of the numbers for each variable does not always add up to the cohort total because of missing data. The frequency of incomplete data did not vary between the 2 centers or among different races for any of the variables.

^*Initially 867 cases were qualified; however 50 cases were not included in the analyses as more that 2 data points were missing.