There's a common belief that certain parts of the United States are worse for people who suffer from allergies. However, according to a new study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, allergy prevalence is the same no matter where you live.
"Before this study, if you would have asked 10 allergy specialists if allergy prevalence varied depending on where people live, all 10 of them would have said yes, because allergen exposures tend to be more common in certain regions of the United States," said Darryl Zeldin, scientific director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) — part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) — in a press statement. "This study suggests that people prone to developing allergies are going to develop an allergy to whatever is in their environment. It's what people become allergic to that differs."
The NIH reports that the only exception to this new finding is children between the ages of one and five. Among this group, those who lived in southern states including Louisiana, Florida, Texas, Arkansas and Mississippi were more likely to suffer from allergies than children in other parts of the United States.
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