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Santos A, Dias A, Pinheiro JA. Predictive factors for the persistence of cow’s milk allergy.
Pediatr Allergy Immunol 2010: 21: 1127–1134.
© 2010 John Wiley & Sons A/S

Cow’s milk allergy (CMA) is usually transient, but recent studies have shown a later acquisition of tolerance to CM. Our aims were to characterize a population of Portuguese children with CMA and to identify predictive factors for the persistence of this food allergy. Children with CMA observed in our Paediatric Allergy Clinic between 1997 and 2006 were selected. Demographic and clinical data were collected from medical records. The group of children who tolerated CM before the age of 2 was compared with the group of children who tolerated CM beyond that age or persisted with CMA until the end of the study. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to investigate independent predictive factors for the persistence of CMA beyond the …