Table 1.

Patient Characteristics

	Patients with Eosinophilic Esophagitis N = 39	Patients without Esophageal Eosinophilia (normal esophagus) N = 32	P value
Mean age in years (range)	9.07 (1.6 – 17.8)	9.8 (0.6 – 17.6)	0.58
Males	27 (69%)	13 (41%)	0.02
White	23 (59%)	28 (88%)	<0.01
Atopy‡	35 (90%)	14 (44%)	<0.01
On therapy§	23 (59%)	11 (34%)	0.04
Symptoms
Dysphagia	16 (41%)	0	<0.01
Food impaction	3 (8%)	0	0.25
Heartburn or chest pain	9 (23%)	0	<0.01
Abdominal pain	17 (44%)	25 (78%)	<0.01
Vomiting	23 (59%)	6 (19%)	<0.01
Feeding difficulty	6 (15%)	1 (3%)	0.12
Poor weight gain, weight loss, or failure to thrive	8 (21%)	7 (22%)	0.89

^‡Patients with asthma, eczema, food allergy, or drug allergy were classified as atopy.

^§On PPI, topical steroid, systemic steroid, and/or dietary therapy.