Table 1.

Prevalence of symptoms of eosinophilic esophagitis in Japanese adults

Author [Ref]	Number of cases	Dysphagia food impaction	Heartburn/acid regurgitation	Chest pain/chest discomfort	Epigastralgia/Abdominal pain	Others symptoms*	Other upper GI symptoms**	No symptoms
Abe et al. [15]	12	7	1	1	2	0	4	3
Fujishiro et al. [16]	7	2	2	0	2	0	4	0
Fujiwara et al. [17]	7	3	3	0	0	0	3	1
Kinoshita et al.[18]	26	12	2	0	0	13	15	0
Tomomatsu et al.[19]	10	6	3	1	0	0	4	0
Hori et al. [20]	5	2	0	0	0	1	1	2
Abe et al. [15]	10	1	2	0	0	0	2	8
Shimura et al. [22]	12	5	4	1	1	0	6	4
Kusunose et al.[23]	13	8	6	0	1	0	7	0
Iwakura et al. [24]	33	30	6	4	0	0	10	0
Ishimura et al. [25]	4	3	2	0	0	0	2	0
Jiao et al. [26]	27	15	13	4	0	5	22	0
Okimoto et al. [27]	70	37	22	0	13	0	35	9
Okimoto et al. [28]	6	2	3	0	1	0	4	0
Adachi et al. [11]	36	17	12	1	1	0	14	11
Sato et al. [12]	17	5	5	0	0	0	5	7
Ishimura et al. [29]	55	31	18	0	0	0	18	0
Ishimura et al. [30]	147	76	52	16	0	0	68	25
Sawada et al. [31]	106	73	27	16	0	0	43	12
Takashima et al. [32]	27	19	1	0	0	0	1	7
Tanaka et al. [13]	27	19	1	0	0	0	1	7
Ishibashi et al. [14]	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	37
Case reports#	39	20	3	5	5	6	17	8
Abstracts##	153	76	36	10	16	13	68	26
Total	886	469	224	59	42	38	354	167
Prevalence	100%	52.9%	25.3%	6.7%	4.7%	4.3%	40.0%	18.8%
Patients with symptoms	719	469	224	59	42	38	354
Prevalence###	100%	65.2%	31.2%	8.2%	5.8%	5.3%	49.2%

*Other symptoms include nausea/vomiting, globus sensation, anorexia, odynophagia, and belching

** Number of other upper GI symptoms is the incidence of heartburn/acid regurgitation, chest pain/discomfort, epigastralgia/abdominal pain, and other symptoms

# Summary of 31 full articles of case reports

## Summary of 70 abstracts of case reports and series

### prevalence calculated in patients with symptoms