Female Patients with Dermatitis Herpetiformis Show a Reduced Diagnostic Delay and Have Higher Sensitivity Rates at Autoantibody Testing for Celiac Disease

Table 2

Intestinal involvement in patients underwent duodenal biopsy based on the Marsh classification modified by Oberhuber [8].

		Sex				Total		-value^∗
		M		F
			%		%		%
Grade	1	5	15.2%	6	15.8%	11	15.5%	0.81
	2	4	12.1%	2	5.3%	6	8.5%
	3a	8	24.2%	7	18.4%	15	21.1%
	3b	11	33.3%	15	39.5%	26	36.6%
	3c	5	15.2%	8	21.1%	13	18.3%

^∗Fisher’s exact test where required.