A retrospective monocentric observational no-profit study with the aim of evaluating the entity and potential variables influencing the catch-up growth of childhood gluten-free diet patients with celiac disease during a 10-year follow-up. The only extrapolation of the data collected in anonymized form from the medical records of patients who match the necessary study criteria will be planned in order to achieve this aim. A 900-patient sample size will be planned.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
900
ASST Fatebenefratelli Sacco
Milan, Italy
RECRUITINGMeasure the catch-up growth degree.
Changes in the auxological weight variable in pediatric patients with celiac disease were measured 6 months and 24 months after they started a gluten-free diet. The change was expressed as an average daily weight increase and compared with the average increase expected for sex and age in a healthy population extrapolated from validated curves (Cacciari).
Time frame: 6 and 24 month
Calculate the degree of catch-up growth
Variation in the auxological variable of height in pediatric patients with celiac disease, measured as variation in the standard deviation of this variable compared to reference values for age and sex extrapolated from validated curves (Cacciari curves), at six and twenty-four months after the start of the gluten-free diet.
Time frame: 6 and 24 month
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