Reaction phenotypes in IgE-mediated food allergy and anaphylaxis.

CONCLUSION: Data are emerging to confirm our clinical experience that many food-allergic patients experience stereotypical symptoms following allergen exposure, both in the community and at supervised oral food challenge, in a manner that varies from one patient to another. Integrating datasets from different cohorts and applying unbiased machine-learning analyses may demonstrate specific food allergy endotypes, in a similar way to asthma. Whether this results in improvements in patient management (e.g. through facilitating risk stratification or impacting on the decision to prescribe EAI and, perhaps, the number of devices) remains to be determined - but given our current inability to predict patients most at risk of severe food-allergic reactions, this will clearly be an important area of research in the future. PMID: 31923546 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology - Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Tags: Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol Source Type: research