TABLE 1.

Comparison of demographic and clinical parameters of patients with CD diagnosed in pre‐pandemic and pandemic period

Parameters	Pre‐pandemic period (January 2008–February 2020)	Pandemic period (March 2020–June 2021)	p	OR (95% CI)
Number of patients	148	47	n/a	n/a
Number of patients per year	12.1	37.6	n/a	n/a
Number of endoscopies	6,641	330	n/a	n/a
% of CD/endoscopy	2.2	10 a	<0.00001	4.87 (3.28–7.23)
Inside patients, n (%)	127 (86.3)	40 (83.3)	0.9	0.94 (0.37–2.39)
Gender, female, n (%)	99 (66.8)	32 (68)	0.879	0.95 (0.47–1.91)
Age, mean ±SD, years	7.12 ± 4.24	8.1 ± 4.9	0.645	n/a
Typical CD, n (%)	88 (59.4)	34 (72.3)	0.111	0.6 (0.3–1.22)
Obesity, n (%)	2 (1.3)	1 (2.1)	0.706	0.63 (0.06–7.11)
Type 1 DM, n (%)	6 (4)	8 (17)	0.002	4.85 (1.59–14.82)
Moderate‐severe mucosal lesion, n (%)	121/148 (81.7)	14/33 (42.4) a	0.0001	0.16 (0.07–0.37)

Abbreviations: CD, celiac disease; DM, diabetes mellitus.

^a Endoscopic examination could be performed in 33 of 47 patients.