Early diagnosis of celiac disease in rheumatoid arthritis patients

الملخص EN

Seventy nine patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), aged between 9-55 years underwent study of serologic marker for celiac disease(CD) antigliadin antibody IgA and antigliadin antibody-IgG (AGA-IgA and AGA IgG), while 53(67.1 %) were positive for AGA-IgA and AGA IgG 25(71.4 %) and 10 (55.6 %) of female and male respectively were positive for IgA, whereas 10(28.6 %) and 8(44.4 %) of female and male respectively were positive for IgG.

The study showed that the screening for silent CD among patients with RA may be useful.

Those patients with AGAIgA need further follow up since these antibodies are specific for CD.