Volume 146, Issue 7, Pages 1639-1648 (June 2014) Efficacy of Dietary Interventions for Inducing Histologic Remission in Patients With Eosinophilic Esophagitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Ángel Arias, Jesús González-Cervera, José M. Tenias, Alfredo J. Lucendo Gastroenterology Volume 146, Issue 7, Pages 1639-1648 (June 2014) DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2014.02.006 Copyright © 2014 AGA Institute Terms and Conditions
Figure 1 Flowchart for process of identifying studies that were included and excluded in the systematic review. Gastroenterology 2014 146, 1639-1648DOI: (10.1053/j.gastro.2014.02.006) Copyright © 2014 AGA Institute Terms and Conditions
Figure 2 Overall combined effects of elemental diet for inducing histologic remission of EoE. Percentage of clinical improvement after following an elemental diet was extracted from each article/abstract and 95% CIs were calculated using the exact binomial method. A random-effects model was used to calculate the overall effect size. The I2 of 52.3% indicates that intra-study differences (heterogeneity) account for only 2.3% of the variability in the overall effect size. Gastroenterology 2014 146, 1639-1648DOI: (10.1053/j.gastro.2014.02.006) Copyright © 2014 AGA Institute Terms and Conditions
Figure 3 Overall effect size of allergy testing–directed food elimination for inducing histologic remission of EoE. Gastroenterology 2014 146, 1639-1648DOI: (10.1053/j.gastro.2014.02.006) Copyright © 2014 AGA Institute Terms and Conditions
Figure 4 The efficacy of SFEDs in inducing histologic remission (<15 eosinophils/hpf) in patients with EoE. Gastroenterology 2014 146, 1639-1648DOI: (10.1053/j.gastro.2014.02.006) Copyright © 2014 AGA Institute Terms and Conditions
Figure 5 Begg funnel plot of studies on the efficacy of dietary treatment for inducing histologic remission in patients with EoE. The solid line in the center is the natural logarithm of pooled remission rates, and the 2 oblique lines are pseudo 95% confidence limits. Gastroenterology 2014 146, 1639-1648DOI: (10.1053/j.gastro.2014.02.006) Copyright © 2014 AGA Institute Terms and Conditions