Table 1.

Selected clinical and laboratory parameters of patients with celiac disease and control subjects (means ± SE)

	Celiac disease patients		Controls
	n = 33		n = 35
Females/males	24/9		13 / 22
	at diagnosis	in current study
Age (yrs)	27.4 ± 3.0	32.2 ± 2.5	31.0 ± 1.9
Iron (μmol/L)	13.0 ± 1.5a	17.6±1.3c	23.1 ± 2.1
Hb (g/dL)	12.6 ± 0.4a	13.9±0.3c	15.8 ± 0.5
MCV (fL)	85.5 ± 1.7a	88.4±1.0c	94.3 ± 2.7
RDW (%)	15.7 ± 0.6	14.4±0.4	13.9 ± 0.5
BMI (kg/m2)	20.0 ± 0.7 a	22.8±0.6	23.1 ± 1.1

^aP< 0.05 vs same group and controls at the time of the study.

^cP < 0.05 vs controls