Type 1 diabetes, thyroid, gastric and adrenal humoral autoantibodies are present altogether in almost one third of adult celiac patients at diagnosis, with a higher frequency than children and adolescent celiac patients.

Conclusions: One third of adult CD patients at diagnosis is target of at least one organ-specific autoantibody. A systematic organ-specific autoantibody screening in these patients might be of value to promptly identify, prevent or treat the relative diseases. PMID: 32393142 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology - Category: Gastroenterology Tags: Scand J Gastroenterol Source Type: research