Medications: The Leading Cause Of Allergy-Related Deaths
Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - 19:01
in Health & Medicine
An analysis of death certificates from 1999 to 2010 has found that medications are the leading cause of allergy-related sudden deaths in the U.S. The study in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology also found that the risk of fatal drug-induced allergic reactions was particularly high among older people and African-Americans and that such deaths increased significantly in the U.S. in recent years. read more