Quality of life is more impaired in patients seeking medical care for food allergy

International Archives of Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 162, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 335-339

  Le, Thuy My ^a   Flokstra De Blok, Bertine M J ^b,d   Van Hoffen, Els ^a   Lebens, Ans F M ^a   Goossens, Nicole J ^c,d   Dubois, Anthony E J ^c,d   Bruijnzeel Koomen, Carla A F M ^a   Knulst, André C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b Department of General Practice ^*  (Netherlands)

^c Division of Paediatric Allergy and Paediatric Pulmonology and   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Food allergy; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886730623     PISSN: 10182438     EISSN: 14230097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000354925     Document Type: Article

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