Research Article
Anti-Actin IgA Antibodies Identify Celiac Disease Patients with a Marsh 3 Intestinal Damage among Subjects with Moderate Anti-TG2 Levels
Table 1
Prevalence of the symptoms suggestive of CD in our retrospective (149 CD patients) and prospective (50 CD patients) studies.
| Symptoms | Retrospective study | Prospective study |
| Diarrhoea | 23.1% | 21.3% | Iron deficiency anaemia | 17.0% | 16% | Short stature/growth failure | 16.5% | 12% | Abdominal pain | 15.4% | 9.3% | Weight loss | 8.8% | 10.7% | Chronic fatigue | 5.5% | 9.3% | Constipation | 4.9% | 6.7% | Vomiting | 2.7% | 5.3% | Increased level of liver enzymes | 2.2% | 2.7% | Irritability | 1.1% | 2.7% | Others | 2.7% | 4% |
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