Table 4.
Association between early feeding practices and severity of celiac disease in 89 infants diagnosed with celiac disease at the University Children’s Hospital, Belgrade, from 2000 to 2008
| Infants grouped according to |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical feature |
breastfeeding status during gluten introduction |
age when gluten was introduced into their diet |
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| with breastfeeding (n = 66) | no breastfeeding (n = 33) | P | <4 months (n = 22) | 4-6 months (n = 63) | >6 months (n = 4) | P | |
| Anemia (n = 45) |
10 |
35 |
0.693* |
14 |
31 |
0 |
0.534* |
| Lactose intolerance (n = 18) |
3 |
15 |
0.565* |
5 |
13 |
0 |
0.610* |
| Percent of body weight divergence (mean+standard deviation) |
13.94 ± 10.84 |
-15.59 ± 9.00 |
0.65† |
-13.56 ± 8.04 |
-11.97 ± 1.44 |
-12.24 ± 9.77 |
0.890‡ |
| Percentile of body length (mean+standard deviation) | 38 ± 19.43 | 42.31 ± 28.91 | 0.585† | 30.03 ± 22.62 | 39.18 ± 26.86 | 54.17 ± 19.09 | 0.240‡ |
* χ2 test.
†t test.
‡One way analysis of variance.