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Department of Psychiatry Allergy and Pediatrics completed prospective study looking into prevalence of anxiety in the children with food allergies and we are in the process of working on final version of the manuscript before submitting. I am Principal Investigators and corresponding author on the study and our team is listed below.
One hundred fourteen (114) patient’s ages 8-16 years and their mothers completed the SCARED (Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders). (37 with confirmed anxiety disorder from a pediatric psychiatry clinic 38 with confirmed food allergies from a pediatric allergy clinic and 39 patients seen during well-care exam from a general pediatrics clinic)
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Prevalence of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents with food allergies

Authors: Lidija Petrovic-Dovat*, M.D.1, Tracy Fausnight*, M.D.2, Amanda M. White, B.S.1, Timothy Zeiger, PsyD.1, Pevitr S. Bansal, M.S.1, Nidhi Garg, M.D.5, Jitendra Annapareddy, M.D.1, Lance Feldman, M.D.1, Sarah Iriana, M.D.3, Marcia J. Slattery, M.D.4, Roger E. Meyer, M.D.1, Edward O. Bixler, PhD1.

*both authors contributed equally to this publication

Corresponding author: Lidija Petrovic-Dovat, M.D. Department of Psychiatry, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA. Email: lpetrovicdovat@hmc.psu.edu Affiliations: 1Department of Psychiatry, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania,

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