H�ufigkeit der C�liakie im Einzugsgebiet der Kinderklinik Graz
✍ Scribed by Rossipal, E.
- Book ID
- 104776513
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1975
- Weight
- 508 KB
- Volume
- 119
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0044-2917
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✦ Synopsis
The incidence of coeliae disease in infants and children was estimated by the number of children born between i January 1969 an 31 December 1972 and the number of patients with coeliae disease born during the same period in the area served by the Kinderklinik Graz. The drainage area of the Kinderklinik Graz comprises i0.5~o of the population of Austria and 11.1% of the children born in Austria during the period mentioned. The diagnostic criteria for coeliae disease includes evidence of intestinal malabsorption, a subtotal atrophy of the duodenojejunal mucosa and the demonstration of clinical and biochemical response to gluten withdrawal. In all patients born in 1972 a second biopsy was done after a period on gluten free diet and a third biopsy after reintroduction of gluten. The incidence of eoeliac disease showed to be 1 in 496. The incidence for girls proved to be 1 in 403 and that for boys 1 in 636. These figures are in good correlation to that reported for Ireland and Switzerland but much higher than those estimated for Britain.