Skip to main content
. 2019 Oct 13;55(10):684. doi: 10.3390/medicina55100684

Table 2.

Peanut OIT studies.

Reference, Year Design Sample Size (n) Subject Age (yrs) Maintenance Dose (mg) Duration Conclusions
Jones SM. et al., 2009 [24] open-label 29 1–16 1800 36 mo 93% passed 3.9 g peanut OFC
Blumchen K. et al., 2010 [58] randomized, open-label 23 3–14 500 7-day rush
escalation, 8 wk
maintenance
64% reached their maintenance dose of 500 mg peanut
Varshney P. et al., 2011 [25] randomized, placebo-controlled 19 3–11 2000 48 wk 84% passed 5000 mg peanut OFC
Anagnostou K. et al., 2011 [59] open-label 22 4–18 800 32 wk 64% tolerated 6.6 g OFC
Anagnostou K. et al., 2014 [60] randomized, placebo-controlled 39 7–16 800 26 wk 62% tolerated 1400 mg challenge
Vickery BP. et al., 2014 [10] open-label 24 1–16 ≤ 4000 ≤ 5 y 1 mo after OIT stopped, 50% achieved sustained unresponsiveness to 5000 mg OFC
Narisety SD. et al., 2015 [6] randomized, placebo-controlled 16 7–13 2000 12 mo Significantly greater increase in OFC threshold in OIT vs. SLIT, low rate of sustained unresponsiveness
Kukkonen K. et al., 2017 [61] double-blind, placebo-controlled 39 (60 tot, 39 OIT and 21 controls) 6–18 100-2000 8 mo 85% of patients passed the build-up phase, and 67% tolerated 5 g of peanuts during the post-treatment challenge
Vickery B. et al., 2017 [62] double-blind, placebo-controlled 40 (40 OIT and 154 controls) 9–36 mo 300-3000 29 mo overall 78% of subjects receiving E-OIT demonstrated sustained unresponsiveness to peanut four weeks after stopping E-OIT and reintroduced peanut into the diet
Bird JA. et al., 2018 [63] double-blind, placebo-controlled 29 (tot 55, 29 OIT and 26 controls) 4–26 300 20-34 wk 79% and 62% AR101 subjects tolerated > 443 mg and 1043 mg respectively, versus 5 of 26 (19%) and 0 of 26 (0%) placebo subjects (both p < 0.0001)
PALISADE group, 2018 [4] double-blind, placebo-controlled 372 (496 tot, 372 OIT and 124 controls) 4–17 300 24 wk 250 of 372 participants (67.2%) who received active treatment, as compared with 5 of 124 participants (4.0%) who received placebo, were able to ingest a dose of 600 mg or more of peanut protein, without dose-limiting symptoms, at the exit food challenge
Nachshon L. et al., 2018 [64] prospective 139 (145 tot, 139 < 18 y) 4–18 1200 or 3000 6 mo Of the 145 patients treated, 113 (77.9%) were fully desensitized to 3000 mg of peanut protein, 20 (13.8%) patients were partially desensitized to 300-2400 mg, and 12 patients (8.3%) failed. 63/64 patients (98.4%) consuming 1200 mg maintenance dose were successfully re-challenged to 3000 mg. All patients in the high dose group (3000 mg) who continued regular consumption and arrived for follow-up (n = 22) passed a challenge to 3000 mg.
Nagakura K. et al., 2018 PAI [65] prospective, open-label 24 (24 OIT, 10 controls) 5–18 133 12 mo 16 children (67%) passed the 133-mg OFC, and 14 (58%) passed the 795-mg OFC. Only 1 child (10%) in the historical control group passed the 133-mg OFC (p = 0.006). Ultimately, eight children (33%) in the OIT group achieved sustained unresponsiveness
Nagakura K. et al., 2018 [66] double-blind, placebo-controlled 22 (22 OIT, 11 controls) 5–18 795 2 y 15/22 patients (68.1%) in the OIT group achieved sustained unresponsiveness, whereas only 2 (18.1%) in the control group passed the second OFC
Anvari S. et al., 2018 [67] double-blind, placebo-controlled 15 5–16 3900 3 mo OIT participants who underwent dose variations on the unexpired lots of peanut flour were able to successfully tolerate the 100% dose increase, following a two-week tolerance of a 50% dose reduction on an unexpired lot of peanut flour
Zhong Y. et al., 2018 [68] open-label 7 (9 total, 7 completed protocol) 8–14 3000 12 mo Of the seven who completed OIT, six tolerated 6000 mg of peanut protein at the first OFC at six months of maintenance phase; the last patient was afraid of consuming more than 3000 mg of peanut protein but passed the challenge with 3000 mg. After 12 months of maintenance therapy, only 3 of the 7 subjects consented to 4 weeks of abstinence. Of these, only 1 passed the challenge with 6000 mg of peanut protein.
Fauquert JL. et al., 2018 [69] double-blind, placebo-controlled 21 (30 tot, 21 OIT and nine controls) 12–18 400 IN CAPSULES 24 wk Unresponsiveness to 400 mg of peanut protein was achieved in 17/21 peanut group patients (two patients withdrew) and 1/9 in the placebo group
Blumchen K. et al., 2019 [70] double-blind, placebo-controlled 31 (62 tot, 31 OIT and 31 controls) 3–17 125–250 16 mo Twenty-three of 31 (74.2%) children of the active group tolerated at least 300 mg peanut protein at final food challenge compared with 5 of 31 (16.1%) in the placebo group (p < 0.001). Thirteen of 31 (41.9%) children of the active versus 1 of 31 (3.2%) of the placebo group tolerated the highest dose of 4.5 g peanut protein at final OFC (p < 0.001)
Wasserman RL. et al., 2019 [71] retrospective record 270 4–18 3000 36 mo All patients who reached the 3000 mg target dose (214/262 81%) were challenged with 6000 mg of peanut protein and all but 1 patient passed the challenge. 14 had demonstrated sustained unresponsiveness with 6000 mg

Legend: Y: years; mo: months; n: number; OFC: oral food challenge; OIT: oral immunotherapy; tot: total; wk: weeks; SLIT sublingual immunotherapy.