Prevalence of celiac disease among children in Finland

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 348, Issue 25, 2003, Pages 2517-2524

  Mäki, Markku ^a,b   Mustalahti, Kirsi ^a,b   Kokkonen, Jorma ^c   Kulmala, Petri ^c   Haapalahti, Mila ^c   Karttunen, Tuomo ^c   Ilonen, Jorma ^d   Laurila, Kaija ^a   Dahlbom, Ingrid ^e   Hansson, Tony ^e   Höpfl, Peter ^e   Knip, Mikael ^b,f  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^e Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; ENDOMYSIUM ANTIBODY; HLA DQ ANTIGEN; HLA DQ8 ANTIGEN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN GLUTAMINE GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN GLUTAMINE GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BARLEY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELIAC DISEASE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FINLAND; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HLA SYSTEM; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOASSAY; INTESTINE BIOPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RYE; SCHOOL CHILD; WHEAT;

ADOLESCENT; AUTOANTIBODIES; BIOPSY; CELIAC DISEASE; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FINLAND; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MUSCLE FIBERS; NASAL MUCOSA; PREVALENCE; TRANSGLUTAMINASES;

EID: 0038509007     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa021687     Document Type: Article

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