Eosinophilic Esophagitis in Children and Adolescents with Abdominal Pain: Comparison with EoE-Dysphagia and Functional Abdominal Pain

Table 3

Symptom score change, dysphagia for EoE-D and abdominal pain for EoE-AP and FAP, baseline versus follow-up.

	EoE-D	EoE-AP	FAP	EoE-D versus EoE-AP ()	EoE-AP versus FAP ()
Total, number (%)	64	63	61
Improved	55 (85.9)	19 (30.2)	49 (80.3)	<0.001	<0.001
Not improved	9 (14.1)	44 (69.8)	12 (19.7)

EoE-D: baseline mean score = 1.5; sd = 0.69. Follow-up mean score = 0.6; sd = 0.53.
Mean difference is −0.89, which is significant () by paired -test.
EoE-AP group: baseline mean score = 1.2; sd = 0.43. Follow-up mean score = 1.4; sd = 0.77.
Mean difference is 0.20, which is not significant ( = 0.25) by paired -test.