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Figure 2. (A) The summary of risk of bias; (B) Each risk of bias item for each included study;
(C) Funnel plot of studies.
Figure 3. Efficacy of OIT (A: Desensitization; B: subgroup analysis of desensitization in patients older than 3-years-old; C: partial desensitization).
Figure 4. Adverse events of OIT(A: serious adverse events; B: non-serious adverse events; C: epinephrine use; D: treatment discontinuation) .
Author Contributions Lujing Tang: Conceptualization(lead); Data curation(lead); Formal analysis(lead); Methodology(lead);Writing-original draft(lead);Writing-review and editing(lead). Yu Yu: Data curation(equal). Xiangyuan Pu: Writing-review and editing(equal). Jie Chen: Conceptualization(lead); Writing-review and editing(equal); Supervision (lead).