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adverse

adj. clearly contrary, such as an adverse party being the one suing you. An adverse interest in real property is a claim against the property, such as an easement.

adverse

(Hostile), adjective antagonistic, deprecatory, disagreeable, discordant, disinclined, dissuasive, fractious, inauspicious, indisposed, inimical, intolerant, opposed, recalcitrant, renitent, repugnant, resistive, restive, uncooperative, unfriendly, unreconciled, untoward, unwilling
Associated concepts: adverse claim, adverse effect, adverse enjoyment of property, adverse interest, adverse possession, adverse use, adverse user, adverse witness
Foreign phrases: Longa possessio parit jus possidendi, et tollit actionem vero domino.Long possession creates the right of possession, and ripens into a right of action against the real owner.

adverse

(Negative), adjective afflictive, calamitous, catastrophic, corrosive, deleterious, destructive, dire, disadvantageous, disastrous, disserviceable, dreadful, harmful, hurtful, injurious, insalubrious, malefic, maleficient, prejudicial, ruinous, scatheful, unadvisable, unfortunate
Associated concepts: adverse determination of the court, adderse effect, adverse holding of the court, adverse interest

adverse

(Opposite), adjective adversus, antipodal, antithetical, antonymous, at variance, conflicting, conflictive, contradictory, contradistinct, contrapositive, contrarious, contrarius, contrary, contrastable, counter, counteractive, diametrically opposite, irreconcilable, obverse, reverse
Associated concepts: adverse action, adverse party

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In Brazil, there are no epidemiological data about the prevalence of adverse food reaction and food allergy in children since there are no population-based studies that have used questionnaires which have been analyzed in terms of reproducibility and validation.

The questions with good internal consistency and good levels of reproducibility highlight the major aspects of an adverse food reaction with a possibly allergic etiology.

Table 1: Evaluation of the test-retest reproducibility of the survey about adverse food reaction and food allergy according to Kappa concordance.

In Brazil, there is the need of a well-designed, reproducible, and validated questionnaire that can be used for the initial diagnosis of adverse food reactions and putative food allergies.

Adverse reactions to foods and food allergy: development and reproducibility of a questionnaire for clinical diagnosis

A variety of diagnostic techniques exist for checking adverse food reactions: skin patch testing, intradermal testing, sublingual testing, the elimination diet, fasting, RAST test, FAST test, MAST test, and the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) test.

The case for testing a chronically ill patient's adverse reactions to foods

Evaluation of a patient for suspected adverse food reactions involves a thorough history, physical examination, and laboratory tests.

Clinical and laboratory investigation of allergy to genetically modified foods. (Genetically Modified Foods Mini-Monograph)

Similarly, nearly one-third of parents perceive adverse food reactions to be responsible for a multitude of symptoms in their children and modify their children's diets in response (Bock 1987).

Food allergy: an overview. (Mini-Monograph)

Adverse food reactions may be toxic or nontoxic reactions.

Food intolerance causes obesity and premature aging

True prevalence of adverse food reactions is unknown; however, a review of the literature indicates that approximately 6-8% of children and 1-2% of adults have some type of food allergy (Bock 1987; Burks et al.

Nonmurine animal models of food allergy. (Mini-Monograph)

Testing for adverse food reactions serves many important purposes and provides significant benefit to the patient.