The statistics given in the hospital admissions reference studies give wide ranges, dependent on many factors....ages, hospitals etcetera etc. This is not an exact science and we should not quibble about range subsets as we are not comparing apples with apples. Within a 1-20 % range, an individual subset range could well be 15-20%? Not a valid quibble in my view.
I gather that these numbers are meant to give a broad idea of the extent of the problem and that individual studies could well be different from the mean value.
As a physical scientist, medical science reports seem very inexact to me. With good reason as people are not machines.
We still need to answer the question re the validity of the saliva allergy test and I look forward to knowing the result of the ongoing literature and other research being conducted here. |