Celiac Disease in Uzbek Children: Insights into Disease Prevalence and Clinical Characteristics in Symptomatic Pediatric Patients.
Altinoy T KamilovaGulnoza K AzizovaDimitri PoddigheZulkhumar E UmarnazarovaDilrabo A AbdullaevaSvetlana I GellerNoiba D AzimovaPublished in: Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) (2023)
This study may further suggest a relevant prevalence of CD in Uzbek children, based on this partial picture emerging from symptomatic patients only. Additionally, we highlighted the prevalence of typical CD forms with watery diarrhea, which should strongly support a full diagnostic work-up for CD in the local clinical setting. The high levels of anti-tTG IgA and high Marsh grade might also lead us to speculate a significant diagnostic delay despite the classical clinical expression of CD.