Introduction and Objective: Children diagnosed with Celiac Disease should be closely followed-up for osteoporosis that may develop. We aimed to evaluate the osteoporosis conditions with bone densitometry in patients with celiac disease diagnosis and who was given a strict gluten-freediet.
Material and Methods: The complaints at the time admission, anthropometric data, laboratory findings at the time of admission and laboratory findings after gluten-free diet and bone densitometer results of 80 patients who were followed-up at the Pediatric Gastroenterology Outpatient Clinic of our hospital and diagnosed with Celiac Disease were retrospectively investigated.
Findings: The study was conducted between December 2015 and February 2016 in our hospital with patients diagnosed with Celiac Disease. The study was conducted with a total of 80 cases, 31 (38.8%) males and 69(61.3%) females. The mean age of the cases was 10.01 ± 4.75 years. While the most common symptoms of the cases with Gastrointestinal System (GIS) findings were abdominal pain and diarrhea, the most common findings apart from the GIS were growth and developmental delay and anemia. In our study, the frequency of osteoporosis is 10%.
Conclusion: In our study, it is shown that the majority of children diagnosed with Celiac Disease apply to the hospital with findings apart from the gastrointestinal system or asymptomatically. It is important to carefully question the non-GIS findings of the disease. Requesting BMD in the follow-up of Celiac Disease is an important marker for diagnosis and increase in length of patients with osteoporosis.
Key words: CELIAC DISEASE, CHILD, OSTEOPOROSIS
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