[Prevalence of specific antibodies for celiac disease in children attended in the Nutritional Recovery Program in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina]

Acta Gastroenterol Latinoam. 2014;44(3):210-5.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

Celiac disease is a systemic autoimmune disease that affects 1.26% of the Argentine pediatric population. Our purpose was to study the prevalence of specific antibodies of celiac disease in a risk group and to find the association with specific factors. This was a cross-sectional study conducted in children ofa Nutritional Recovery Program from 1 year and 9 months to 6 years and 9 months old, from one Health Area of Tucumán Province, during 2010 and 2011, in a random cluster sample. It was studied a population of 175 children. We identified 3 cases with positive serology, equivalent to 1.7% of the study population. The association between cases with positive serology for celiac disease and other variables referred could not be established.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Argentina
  • Autoantibodies / blood*
  • Celiac Disease / immunology*
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Immunodiffusion
  • Immunoglobulin A / blood
  • Infant
  • Male
  • Transglutaminases / immunology

Substances

  • Autoantibodies
  • Immunoglobulin A
  • Transglutaminases