“…Of the remaining 46 documents retrieved for complete evaluation, 28 were excluded for the following reasons: they lacked data for calculations (20), they contained repeated or duplicated information (6), they were editorials with no original data (1), or they dealt with esophageal eosinophilia but not EoE (1). In the end, 18 studies (comprising 14 full papers and 4 abstracts ) were included in the quantitative summaries of our systematic review (Fig. ).…”