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Table 3 Food, inhalant immunoCAP specific IgE and selected characteristics of the 108 adoptive children attending the International Adoption Unit at Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy between September 2012 -and July 2016- estimated Z-scores from the multivariate probit model (NI: variable not included in the multivariate analysis because - not significant at the univariate analysis, −excluded by stepwise algorithm; sIgE: specific IgE, 95%CI: 95% confidence intervals)

From: Susceptibility to allergy in adoptive children: a cross-sectional study at “Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital”

 

ALL

 

ImmunoCAP inhalant sIgE

ImmunoCAP food sIgE

N

col%

N

row%

p

coef

(95% CI)

p

N

row%

p

coef

(95%CI)

p

country of origin

    

0.755

NI

    

0.856

NI

  

 africa

24

22.22

6

37.5

    

5

29.41

    

 latin america

14

12.96

4

50

    

2

25

    

 asia

15

13.89

1

14.29

    

3

33.33

    

 eastern europe

52

48.15

12

33.33

    

12

33.33

    

 missing

3

2.78

1

33.33

    

0

0.00

    

sex

    

0.717

NI

    

0.715

NI

  

 F

41

37.96

10

37.04

    

8

27.59

    

 M

67

62.04

14

32.56

    

14

31.82

    

age, years

    

0.072

     

0.948

NI

  

  < 3

26

24.07

2

14.29

 

ref

  

5

31.25

    

 3–5

36

33.33

10

43.48

 

0.67

(−0.29; 1.63)

0.170

10

38.46

    

 6+

45

41.67

12

37.50

 

0.62

(−0.38; 1.43)

0.253

7

23.33

    

 missing

1

0.93

0

0.00

    

0

0.00

    

poor growth by age & sex

    

0.356

NI

    

0.507

NI

  

 no

16

14.81

3

23.08

    

3

23.08

    

 yes

92

85.19

21

36.84

    

19

31.67

    

stool parasites

    

0.192

NI

    

0.987

NI

  

 no

84

77.78

15

29.41

    

16

30.19

    

 yes

23

21.3

9

47.37

    

6

30.00

    

 missing

1

0.93

0

0.00

    

0

0.00

    

vaccination card

    

0.631

NI

    

0.851

NI

  

 no

48

44.44

10

31.25

    

10

31.25

    

 yes

60

55.56

14

36.84

    

12

29.27