Compliance with gluten-free diet in adolescents with screening-detected celiac disease: a 5-year follow-up study.

Fabiani, E; Taccari, L M; Rätsch, I M; Di Giuseppe, S; Coppa, G V; Catassi, C · J Pediatr · 2000

case_control · Level III

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Abstract

After 5 years of treatment, 22 patients with celiac disease, diagnosed by means of serologic mass screening (mean age, 17.9 years), showed a lower compliance with a gluten-free diet and frequent positivity of serum anti-endomysium antibodies (32%) in comparison with a group of 22 age-matched patients diagnosed because of "typical" symptoms during childhood.

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