Many patients with coeliac disease are overweight

The stereotypical patient with the villous atrophy of coeliac disease is malnourished. To test their impression that few new patients with coeliac disease were underweight Dickey and Bodkin studied the body mass index of 50 new patients aged under 65 with uncomplicated coeliac disease (p 1290): 11 were underweight, 22 normal, and 17 overweight. Men had significantly higher body mass index, and a history of diarrhoea or anaemia was not associated with being underweight.


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Prospective study of body mass index in patients with coeliac disease
William Dickey and Shelagh Bodkin
BMJ 1998 317: 1290. [Full Text] [PDF]

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