Table 5.

Biopsy profiles and correlations with clinical characteristics and tests performed.

Characteristics/tests	Non-atrophic	Atrophic	Correlation coefficient (T)	p-value
Gender female	37.2%	62.8%	0.053	0.65
Classical profile	30.8%	69.2%	−0.262	0.22
Age < 2 years old	37%	63%	−0.037	0.75
Constipation	64.7%	35.3%	−0.277	0.015
Growing failure	21.1%	78.9%	0.218	0.05
DQ2(+)	38.6%	61.4%	0.063	0.58
DQ8(+)	43.8%	56.3%	−0.090	0.51
TGA >1,000 (U/ml)	14.3%	85.7%	0.245	0.033
EMA (+)	41.5%	58.5%	−0.036	0.789

DQ2, haplotypes HLA-DQ2; DQ8, haplotypes HLA-DQ8; TGA, transglutaminase antibody IgA class; EMA, Endomysial antibodies IgA class; (T), Kendall's correlation coefficient.

p-value with statistical significance in bold.