Two-weeks-sustained unresponsiveness by oral immunotherapy using microwave heated cow’s milk for children with cow’s milk allergy

Table 3 The rate of desensitization and 2-weeks-sustained unresponsiveness for cow’s milk allergy in the oral immunotherapy group and the untreated group

	OIT (N = 31)		Untreated group (N = 17)
	Desensitization	Two-weeks-sustained unresponsiveness	Pass OFC
At 1-year follow-up	14/31 (45%)*, ^#	7/31 (21%)**, ^##	0/17 (0%), *,^a
At 2-year follow-up	18/30 (60%)^#	14/30 (47%)^##
At 3-year follow-up	21/30 (70%)	16/30 (53%)
At 4-year follow-up	17/20 (85%)	14/20 (70%)

OIT oral immunotherapy, OFC open food challenge
*P = 0.002 by Fisher’s exact test
**P = 0.036 by Fisher’s exact test
^# P = 0.025 by Wilcoxon signed rank test
^## P = 0.008 by Wilcoxon signed rank test
^aPatients in untreated groups continued complete elimination of cow’s milk and a year later were performed open food challenge using fresh cow’s milk was performed

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