Clinical Study

Frequency of Celiac Disease in Patients with Hypothyroidism

Table 4

Thyroid dysfunction in celiac disease (CD).

Authors (year of publication)Population studied with CDPrevalence of thyroid dysfunction

Collin et al. (1994) [19]355AITD* (19) 5.4%
Autoimmune hypothyroidism (11) 3.1%
Graves’ disease (7) 2%

Counsell et al. (1994) [20]107Hyperthyroid (4) 3.7%
Hypothyroid (11) 10.3%

Velluzzi et al. (1998) [7]47Hypothyroid (2) 4.3%
Subclinical hypothyroid (3) 6.4%

Sategna-Guidetti et al. (2001) [9]241Hypothyroid (31) 12.9%
Hyperthyroid (3) 1.2%
Euthyroid AITD (39) 16.2%

Hakanen et al. (2001) [8]79AITD (11)13.9%
Graves’ disease (3) 3.8%
Hypothyroid (8) 10.1%
Subclinical thyroid disease (8) 10.1%

Carta et al. (2002) [21]39Subclinical hypothyroid (3) 7.7%

Hadithi et al. (2007) [5]184Euthyroid (10) 5%
Overt hypothyroidism (22) 12%
Subclinical hypothyroid (7) 3.8%

*Autoimmune thyroid disease.