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Published in final edited form as: Gastrointest Endosc. 2018 Jan 5;87(5):1207–1214.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.gie.2017.12.020

Table 3.

Characteristics of EoE Patients with and without Fibrosis Detected

	EoE with Fibrosis Detected N = 33	EoE with No Fibrosis Detected N = 4	P value
Mean age in years (range)	9.3 (1.6 – 17.8)	5.9 (1.6 – 9.7)	0.24
Males	26 (79%)	0	<0.01
White	17 (52%)	4 (100%)	0.12
Atopy^‡	29 (88%)	4 (100%)	1.00
Peak eosinophil count (eos/HPF), mean ± SD	70.2 ± 34.0	35.3 ± 30.1	0.03
Symptom duration in years, mean ± SD	2.7 ± 2.3	0.9 ± 0.8	0.07
On therapy^§	21 (64%)	1 (25%)	0.28
Total number of biopsies	251	22
Number of biopsies per patient, mean ± SD	7.6 ± 2.3	5.5 ± 1	0.05
Biopsies with adequate lamina propria	123 (49%)	10 (45%)	0.75

^‡

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

^§

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