Serological screening for celiac disease in healthy 2.5-year-old children in Sweden
Carlsson, Annelie LU
; Axelsson, I E
LU
; Borulf, S K
LU
and Bredberg, Anders
LU
(2001)
In Pediatrics
107(1).
p.42-45
- Abstract
OBJECTIVE: The study was designed to investigate the prevalence of celiac disease (CD) among 2.5-year-old children in a Swedish urban population with a high incidence of CD.
MATERIAL AND METHODS: Six hundred ninety apparently healthy children, born in the 12-month period of July 1992 through June 1993, were screened for immunoglobulin A (IgA) antigliadin antibodies and IgA antiendomysium antibodies, and those antibody-positive at repeated testing were further investigated with intestinal biopsy.
RESULTS: Of the 690 children, 6 were both IgA antigliadin antibody- and IgA antiendomysium antibody-positive, and 7 were antiendomysium antibody-positive but antigliadin antibody-negative. Jejunal biopsy, performed in 12 cases,... (More)
OBJECTIVE: The study was designed to investigate the prevalence of celiac disease (CD) among 2.5-year-old children in a Swedish urban population with a high incidence of CD.
MATERIAL AND METHODS: Six hundred ninety apparently healthy children, born in the 12-month period of July 1992 through June 1993, were screened for immunoglobulin A (IgA) antigliadin antibodies and IgA antiendomysium antibodies, and those antibody-positive at repeated testing were further investigated with intestinal biopsy.
RESULTS: Of the 690 children, 6 were both IgA antigliadin antibody- and IgA antiendomysium antibody-positive, and 7 were antiendomysium antibody-positive but antigliadin antibody-negative. Jejunal biopsy, performed in 12 cases, manifested partial or total villous atrophy in 8 cases. Thus, together with an additional child whose parents declined the offered biopsy, but whose response to a gluten-free diet confirmed the presence of CD, the prevalence of CD in the study series was 1.3% (9/690; 95% confidence interval:.4-2.2). However, independent of the study, an additional 22 cases of symptomatic, biopsy-verified CD have already been detected in the birth cohort of 3004 children.
CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of CD in our study series was high, at least 1.0%, but may be as high as 2.0% if the frequency of silent CD is as high as we have found in the remaining unscreened cohort. These findings confirm that CD is one of the most common chronic disorders.
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- Carlsson, Annelie
LU
; Axelsson, I E
LU
; Borulf, S K
LU
and Bredberg, Anders
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2001
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Atrophy, Biopsy, Celiac Disease, Child, Preschool, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Immunoglobulin A, Immunoglobulin G, Jejunum, Male, Mass Screening, Prevalence, Reference Values, Serologic Tests, Sweden, Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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- Pediatrics
- volume
- 107
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 4 pages
- publisher
- American Academy of Pediatrics
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- pmid:11134432
- scopus:0035186741
- pmid:11134432
- ISSN
- 1098-4275
- DOI
- 10.1542/peds.107.1.42
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Paediatrics (Lund) (013002000), Pediatrics/Urology/Gynecology/Endocrinology (013240400), Clinical Microbiology, Malmö (013011000), Paediatric Endocrinology Research Group (013243010)
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