New clinical guidelines for eosinophilic esophagitis suggest for the first time that it may have a genetic cause, linked to an abnormality in chromosome 5. Food allergies may be another cause and possibly the main reason for the growth in cases.
The report added that pediatric patients seem to be presenting with a more advanced form of the disease.
Read the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology report on the eosinophilic esophagitis.
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