Prevalence of Eating Disorders in Adults with Celiac Disease

Table 1

Basic characteristics of the study population.

	CD	HC	𝑃
Number of women	72	68	0.6
Age (means ± SD)	29.2±8.7	30.1±8.2	0.5
BMI (Kg/m^2)	𝟐𝟐.𝟎±𝟑.𝟓	𝟐𝟑.𝟑𝟎±𝟑.𝟎	0.005
% Reporting alcohol intake	15	16	1.0
% Reporting moderate to high physical activity	36	36	0.7
% Reporting gastrointestinal symptoms	78	22	0.0001

Data showed in bold are significantly different (𝑃<0.05) between groups.
CD: celiac disease group; HC: healthy controls group.