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Testing: alla ricerca dei celiaci ignoti
;. Narducci, *L. Mauri, **L. Castelli, *Gruppo ACP Milano
*Pediatra di famiglia; **UO di Pediatria, Ospedale Predabissi, Vizzolo (MI)
Settembre 2000 - pagg. 463 -464
Abstract
According to literature, we identified 32 coeliac disease-related
conditions which can be divided into the following categories:
symptoms, signs, pathologies, instrumental and laboratory tests,
familiarity. During one year, 34 paediatricians in Milan studied
20,805 children; out of them, 577 showed one or more of the
aforementioned conditions. Within this selected population, 15
were positive to EMA and showed the hystologic lesions which
are typical of celiac disease on their mucosa. Therefore, within
this population, which was selected on the basis of symptoms, the
prevalence of coeliac disease was 1/40. After this survey, which
involved only 1/4 of the paediatricians operating in Milan, the
prevalence of identified coeliac disease passed from 1/1122 to
1/679.
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