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« on: January 21, 2015, 07:55:22 PM »Tweeted by @Aller_MD
"Allergists' opinions differed on food challenge outcomes"
http://www.healio.com/allergy-immunology/drug-food-insect/news/online/%7Bb3ef0bc8-6e02-4858-b717-8262a6d0848c%7D/allergists-opinions-differed-on-food-challenge-outcomes?utm_content=buffer0c2de&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
"Allergists' opinions differed on food challenge outcomes"
http://www.healio.com/allergy-immunology/drug-food-insect/news/online/%7Bb3ef0bc8-6e02-4858-b717-8262a6d0848c%7D/allergists-opinions-differed-on-food-challenge-outcomes?utm_content=buffer0c2de&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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The researchers presented the score sheets of 191 double blind placebo-controlled food challenges for peanut performed in a Dutch academic hospital from 2008 to 2010 to three clinical experts in food allergy.
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The occurrence of subjective symptoms [including abdominal complaints and oral allergy symptoms] was associated with disagreement within observers, whereas disagreement was never present when respiratory symptoms occurred.