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REPRODUCTIVE ASPECTS IN BRAZILIAN CELIAC WOMEN
Lorete Maria da Silva Kotze1, Andyara Mallmann1, Rebeca C Miecznikowski1
1Universidade Federal do Paraná, Hospital de Clínicas, Curitiba, PR, Brasil.
Background:
Celiac disease (CD) is a chronic enteropathy in response to ingestion of gluten. CD was associated with gynecological disorders.
Objective:
In this retrospective study, we aimed to investigate the age of menarche, age of menopause, number of pregnancies and abortions in Brazilian celiac patients.
Methods:
We studied 214 women diagnosed with CD and as control group 286 women were investigated.
Results:
Regarding the mean age of menarche, a significant difference was found (12.6±1.40 in CD and 12.8±1.22 years in healthy group; P=0.04). Regarding abortions, in CD women 38/214 (17.8%) and 28/286 (9.8%) in the control group reported abortion (P=0.0092, OR:1.98; CI95%=1.1- 3.3). There was no significant difference in the mean age of menopause nor number of pregnancies per woman.
Conclusion:
In this study, we found that celiac women had a higher mean age of menarche and higher risk of spontaneous abortions.
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