Study suggests that people prone to developing allergies are going to develop an allergy to whatever is in their environment. In the largest, most comprehensive, nationwide study to examine the prevalence of allergies from early childhood to old age, scientists from the National Institutes of Health report that allergy prevalence is the same across different regions of the United States, except in children 5 years and younger.

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