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Prevalence of celiac disease in Diyala children and adolescents with short stature | ||
| Journal of Research Diyala humanity | ||
| Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 31, 2017, Pages 160-172 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Ali Moussa Al-Teemimi; Adel Hessen Al-Husseiny | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of celiac disease (CD) in children and adolescences of short stature in diyala governorate. A total of 80 short stature patients (65% males) their ages were between 4-17 years of with or without gastrointestinal symptoms were studied over three years (2003-2006). Routine physical and laboratory examinations performed to exclude other causes of short stature and those with negative workup were studied with endoscopic intestinal biopsy. Seventeen 17 (21.25%) of them showed histological abnormalities compatible with CD,70.58% of them were males. There was no statistically significant difference in anthropometric characters between patients with CD and short stature and those with short stature of undetermined cause .82% of patients with CD showed abnormal duodenal mucosa endoscopically and 82.35% of them they have marsh's grade three histopathological changes. Those with normal histopathological results are referred for endocrinological studies. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Prevalence of disease Sliac in children and adolescents with tall Palace in Diyala province; changes Nazawria | ||
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