Skip to main content

Table 3 Co-occurring food allergies amongst 961 patients, showing most frequent food groups and the observed/expected numbers of patients with each allergy from 2 × 2 cross-tabulations.

From: Referrals to a regional allergy clinic - an eleven year audit

 

nuts

sea

dairy

fruit

egg

grain

latex

nuts

N = 223

      

seafood

10/16.5

N = 71

     

dairy

8/6.5

6/2.1

N = 28

    

fruit

22/16.2

6/5.2

7/2.0

N = 70

   

egg

15/8.6

6/2.7

13/1.1

6/2.7

N = 37

  

grain

6/5.6

2/1.8

3/0.7

3/1.7

4/0.9

N = 24

 

latex

7/15.3

5/4.9

6/1.9

15/4.8

5/2.5

3/1.6

N = 66

  1. The two bold cells (egg-dairy) and (latex-fruit) show where there is more co-occurrence than you would expect by chance (based on Fisher exact test and p < 0.0024).