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ORIGINAL ARTICLE A Register-Based Report Soili Ma¨kinen-Kiljunen and Tari Haahtela 3Y7 Ireland, and also in the United States (Table 1). Maintaining Background: No data have been available on severe allergic re- a comprehensive anaphylaxis register involves several dif- actions in Finland. ficulties, for example, the lack of internationally accepted Materials and Methods: We summarize the data accumulated from clinical definition of anaphylaxis has made it difficult to 2000 to 2007 in the national register established at the Skin and diagnose an anaphylactic reaction (Table 2). Allergy Hospital of the Helsinki University Central Hospital, where No data reveal actual frequency of severe allergic physicians voluntarily report on patients with severe allergic reactions. reactions in Finland. The literature has reported incidence Results: During the period, the 530 reported cases of severe allergic figures of 7.9 to 21 anaphylaxis cases per 100,000 person- reactions represented an annual frequency of 0.001%. Of the patients, 8Y10 years, along with increasing allergy prevalence and 66% were adults and 56% were female, with a median age of 11Y13 hospital admission figures during the past decade. In the 27 years. Food was the causative agent in 53% of the cases, drugs in United States, approximately 30,000 cases
World Allergy Organization Journal – Wolters Kluwer Health
Published: Nov 1, 2008
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