Number of men affected by allergies rising

The number of men with allergies has been steadily increasing over recent decades, according to a new study. As the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk reports, from the early 1970s to the late 1990s, the numbers affected rose by around a tenth, according to a report in the British Medical Journal. The team from the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine http://www.mds.qmw.ac.uk/wolfson in London was not able to explain the findings. Past studies have concentrated on the increase in allergies in children, with adults seeming less susceptible.