Thyroid and celiac disease: clinical, serological, and echographic study

The American Journal of Gastroenterology
F VelluzziS Mariotti

Abstract

We sought to reevaluate the prevalence of thyroid dysfunction and thyroid autoimmunity in 47 patients with celiac disease; 91 healthy subjects were studied as controls. Both patients and controls were from Sardinia, Italy. Diagnosis of celiac disease was made on the basis of clinical history, presence of positive antigliadin IgA (AGA-A) and IgG (AGA-G) antibodies, antireticulin antibodies (ARA), antiendomysium antibodies (EMA), and was confirmed by jejunal biopsy. HLA class II typing for DQB1 and DQA1 alleles was performed in 36/47 celiac patients. Thyroid was evaluated by palpation and echography; serum free thyroid hormones (FT4, FT3), thyrotropic hormone (TSH), and antithyroid peroxidase autoantibodies (anti-TPO) were assayed by radioimmunoassays. The prevalence of anti-TPO was higher in celiac patients (29.7%) than in healthy controls (9.6%) (p < 0.001) and thyroid echography frequently displayed (42.5%) a hypoechogenic pattern. Five anti-TPO-positive celiac patients were hypothyroid (two overt, three subclinical). A higher but not significantly different prevalence of anti-TPO (3/7 = 42.8%) was found in celiac patients displaying the DQB1*0502 genotype, when compared with the remaining patients (8/29 = 27.6%). An elevated ...Continue Reading

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