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Table 1. Diseases associated with gastrointestinal (GI) eosinophilia for each eosinophilic GI disease (EGID)

EGID	Related diseases
Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) [12]	Achalasia
	Crohn disease
	Celiac disease
	Parasitic infection
	Idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES)
	Vasculitis
	Drug hypersensitivity
	Connective tissue disease
	Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
Eosinophilic gastritis (EoG) and eosinophilic enteritis (EoN) [64, 65]	Malignancy
	Crohn disease
	Celiac disease
	Helicobacter pylori
	Autoimmune gastritis
	Radiation enteritis
	Drug reaction
Eosinophilic colitis (EoC) [40, 65, 66]	Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
	Crohn disease
	Celiac disease
	Helminthic infections (e.g., pin worms, hookworms)
	Idiopathic HES
	Autoimmune diseases (scleroderma, Churg-Strauss)
	Drug reaction

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