Is it necessary to put

Jinho Yu

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Yu: Is it necessary to put "cutoff levels of food specific IgE" in between the glass and the table in your office?

Editorial

Allergy, Asthma & Respiratory Disease 2015; 3(1): 1-2.

Published online: 31 January 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4168/aard.2015.3.1.1

Is it necessary to put "cutoff levels of food specific IgE" in between the glass and the table in your office?

Jinho Yu

Department of Pediatrics, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Correspondence to: Jinho Yu. Department of Pediatrics, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, 88 Olympic-ro 43-gil, Songpa-gu, Seoul 138-736, Korea. Tel: +82-2-3010-3922, Fax: +82-2-3010-6978, jyu3922@gmail.com

Received 12 January 2015 Revised 12 January 2015 Accepted 13 January 2015

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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/).

Figures and Tables

Table 1

Predictive values of food allergen-specific IgE levels^*

Allergen	Cutoff (kU/L)	Diagnostic accuracy (%)
Allergen	Cutoff (kU/L)	Sensitivity	Specificity	PPV	NPV
Milk
≥ 2 yr	15	57	94	95	53
< 2 yr	5	-	-	> 95	-
Egg
≥ 2 yr	7	61	95	98	38
< 2 yr	2	-	-	95	95
Peanut	14	57	100	100	36
Fish	20	25	100	100	89
Soy	30	44	94	73	82
Wheat	26	61	92	74	87

PPV, positive predictive value; NPV, negative predictive value.

^*Adapted from references.2,3,4,5)

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