Self-Reported Food Allergy Prevalence Among Elementary School Children - Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, China, 2021

Hua Feng; Nan Luo; Fang Chen; Xinyu Li; Yu Wen; Chengwei Liu; Yan Chen; Yongning Wu

doi:10.46234/ccdcw2022.161

Self-Reported Food Allergy Prevalence Among Elementary School Children - Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, China, 2021

China CDC Wkly. 2022 Aug 26;4(34):761-765. doi: 10.46234/ccdcw2022.161.

Authors

Hua Feng^{1

2}, Nan Luo¹, Fang Chen¹, Xinyu Li¹, Yu Wen¹, Chengwei Liu³, Yan Chen⁴, Yongning Wu^{2

4}

Affiliations

¹ School of Public Health, Nanchang University, Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, China.
² State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Nanchang University, Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, China.
³ Jiangxi Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, China.
⁴ Research Unit of Food Safety (No.2019RU014), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences: NHC Key Laboratory of Food Safety Risk Assessment, China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment (CFSA), Beijing, China.

Abstract

What is already known about this topic?: The prevalence of food allergy (FA) among the general population has been increasing in recent decades, and seriously affects the physical and mental health and the quality of life of many people - especially children.

What is added by this report?: The survey estimated self-reported FA prevalence using a standardized FA questionnaire among school children in Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, China in 2021.

What are the implications for public health practice?: Based on the local, epidemiological characteristics of food allergy, public policies on the prevention and management of FA should be developed and preventive practices should be promoted to decrease the overall prevalence of FA.

Keywords: Elementary School; Food Allergy; Prevalence.

Copyright and License information: Editorial Office of CCDCW, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention 2022.

Grants and funding

Supported by CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Science (CIFMS 2019-I2M-5-024); TCM Science and Technology Project of Jiangxi Province in 2021(2021B696)