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ArticleThe Journal of allergy and clinical immunology2011

Escalating incidence of eosinophilic esophagitis: a 20-year prospective, population-based study in Olten County, Switzerland.

Petr Hruz, Alex Straumann, Christian Bussmann, Pius Heer, Hans-Uwe Simon, Marcel Zwahlen, Christoph Beglinger, Alain M Schoepfer, Swiss EoE study group

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Article in The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 147 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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147citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

147 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Natural history of eosinophilic esophagitis: a systematic review of epidemiology and disease course.Diseases of the esophagus : official journal of the International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus · 2018
    Pooled it
  3. The prevalence and diagnostic utility of endoscopic features of eosinophilic esophagitis: a meta-analysis.Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association · 2012
    Pooled it
  4. Heartburn and dyspepsia symptom severity improves after treatment and correlates with histology in adults with eosinophilic esophagitis.Diseases of the esophagus : official journal of the International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus · 2019
    Trial
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  6. Accuracy of digital mRNA profiling of oesophageal biopsies as a novel diagnostic approach to eosinophilic oesophagitis.Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2015
    Trial
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  8. AlEuropean journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2026
    Article
  9. Eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2026
    Review
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  13. Recommendations for the diagnosis and management of eosinophilic esophagitis in adults and children in Canada: a Delphi consensus project.Allergy, asthma, and clinical immunology : official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2025
    Review
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  16. [Eosinophilic esophagitis].Innere Medizin (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025
    Review
  17. Eosinophilic esophagitis prevalence, incidence, and presenting features: a 22-year population-based observational study from southwest Sweden.Diseases of the esophagus : official journal of the International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus · 2025
    Observational
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  20. Eosinophilic esophagitis: Current concepts in diagnosis and management.Saudi journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Saudi Gastroenterology Association · 2024
    Review

87 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Petr Hruz
Alex Straumann
Christian Bussmann
Pius Heer
Hans-Uwe Simon
Marcel Zwahlen
Christoph Beglinger
Alain M Schoepfer
Swiss EoE study group

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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EosinophiliaEosinophilic EsophagitisEsophagitisFemaleHumansMale

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