Evaluation of clinical outcomes of efficacy in food allergen immunotherapy trials, COFAITH EAACI task force

© 2024 European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and John Wiley & Sons Ltd..

Food allergy is a global public health problem that until recent years lacked any aetiological treatment supported by academy, industry and regulators. Food immunotherapy (AIT) is an evolving treatment option, supported by clinical practice and industry trial data. Recent AIT meta-analyses have highlighted the difficulty in pooling safety and efficacy data from AIT trials, due to secondary heterogeneity in the study. An EAACI task force (CO-FAITH) initiated by the Paediatric Section was created to focus on AIT efficacy outcomes for milk, egg and peanut allergy rather than in trial results. A systematic search and a narrative review of AIT controlled clinical trials and large case series was conducted. A total of 63 manuscripts met inclusion criteria, corresponding to 23, 21 and 22 studies of milk, egg and peanut AIT, respectively. The most common AIT efficacy outcome was desensitization, mostly defined as tolerating a maintenance phase dose, or reaching a particular dose upon successful exit oral food challenge (OFC). However, a large degree of heterogeneity was identified regarding the dose quantity defining this outcome. Sustained unresponsiveness and patient-reported outcomes (e.g. quality of life) were explored less frequently, and to date have been most rigorously described for peanut AIT versus other allergens. Change in allergen threshold assessed by OFC remains the most common efficacy measure, but OFC methods suffer from heterogeneity and methodological disparity. This review has identified multiple heterogeneous outcomes related to measuring the efficacy of AIT. Efforts to better standardize and harmonize which outcomes, and how to measure them must be carried out to help in the clinical development of safe and efficacious food allergy treatments.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:79

Enthalten in:

Allergy - 79(2024), 4 vom: 01. Apr., Seite 793-822

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Rodríguez Del Río, Pablo [VerfasserIn]
Álvaro-Lozano, Montserrat [VerfasserIn]
Arasi, Stefania [VerfasserIn]
Bazire, Raphaëlle [VerfasserIn]
Escudero, Carmelo [VerfasserIn]
Patel, Nandinee [VerfasserIn]
Sandoval-Ruballos, Monica [VerfasserIn]
Vazquez-Ortiz, Marta [VerfasserIn]
Nowak-Wegrzyn, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Blümchen, Katharina [VerfasserIn]
Dunn Galvin, Audrey [VerfasserIn]
Deschildre, Antoine [VerfasserIn]
Greenhawt, Matthew [VerfasserIn]
Schnadt, Sabine [VerfasserIn]
Riggioni, Carmen [VerfasserIn]
Remington, Benjamin C [VerfasserIn]
Turner, Paul [VerfasserIn]
Fernandez Rivas, Montserrat [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Allergens
Allergy treatment
Epicutaneous immunotherapy
Food allergy
Food immunotherapy
Journal Article
Oral immunotherapy
Review
Sublingual immunotherapy

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Date Completed 01.04.2024

Date Revised 01.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/all.16027

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM367541149