Table 1.

Patient and biopsy characteristics

		Controls (n = 15) %	Newly diagnosed celiac disease (ACD) n = 10	Celiac disease patients on a gluten‐free diet (GFD) n = 15	Refractory celiac disease I patients (RCD I) n = 6	P‐values
Age (years)	Age, mean	57	34	53	60	0·0326*
	Age, standard error	20	14	15	23
	Age range	20–80	20–68	23–78	33–88
Sex	Female	7	6	10	3	n.s.†
	Male	8	4	5	3
Seropositive	Seropositive	0	10	2	1
Marsh score	0	14	0	7	0	< 0·0001†
	1	1	0	4	0
	2	0	0	1	0
	3a–c	0	10	3	6

^*Kruskal–Wallis test.

^†χ² test; n.s. = not significant.