Clinical evaluation of allergen component specific IgE test for nuts and fruits allergy patients

UMIN ID: UMIN000016457

Registered date:09/02/2015

Basic Information

• Recruitment status: Open public recruiting
• Health condition(s) or Problem(s) studied: Food allergy
• Date of first enrollment: 2015/02/09
• Target sample size: 54
• Countries of recruitment: Japan
• Study type: Interventional
• Intervention(s): Blood test

Outcome(s)

• Primary Outcome: Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

• Age minimum: Not applicable
• Age maximum: Not applicable
• Gender: Male and Female
• Include criteria: Patients who had a history of immediate type allergy with walnuts, cashew nuts, hazelnuts, apple and peach in the past year

Exclude criteria

･patients who take oral prednisolone therapy
･patients who take anti-IgE antibody treatment
･patients who take specific immunotherapy
･patients who have a history of food allergy but have never taken any skin test

Related Information

• Primary Sponsor: Department of Dermatology, Yokohama City University hospital
• Source(s) of Monetary Support: Thermo Fisher Scientific