Food allergies are more common for city kids. Photo via
stock.xchng. A new study to be published in the July issue of
Clinical Pediatrics has found that food allergies are more
common for city kids. The study was the first to map the
occurrence of children’s food allergies by location within the
United States. Amongst city kids, 9.8% were found to have food
allergies while 7.2% of suburban children and 6.2% of rural
children were found to have food allergies. According to
Northwestern University, the food allergies of 38,465 children,
18-years-old and younger, were mapped according to zip codes.
MSNBC reports that an online survey asked the children’s parents
if their child suffered from food allergies, when the allergies
were diagnosed, and about the severity of the allergies. Lead
author Ruchi Gupta, M.D., an assistant professor of pediatrics
at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a
physician at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of
Chicago explained the findings, “This shows