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Prevalence of celiac disease in a cohort of women with unexplained infertility.

Jackson JE, Rosen M, McLean T, Moro J, Croughan M, Cedars MI

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.

Several European studies have suggested a higher prevalence of celiac disease (CD) among infertile women (4% to 8%) compared with the general population (<1%). We screened a cohort of women with unexplained infertility in Northern California for the serum markers of CD, tissue transglutaminase and endomysium antibodies (EMA). Given that only one woman out of 121 (0.8%) screened positive for CD, it appears that CD is about as prevalent in this cohort of infertile women as in the general U.S. population (<1%).

Published 14 April 2008 in Fertil Steril, 89(4): 1002-4.
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