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. 2022 Jun 23;14(6):e26243. doi: 10.7759/cureus.26243

Table 1. Summary of screening studies showing the prevalence of celiac disease among autoimmune thyroid disease patients.

CD: celiac disease, AITD: autoimmune thyroid disease, HT: Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, GD: Grave’s disease, anti-TPO: anti-thyroid peroxidase.

References Country Population screened Number of patients with CD Prevalence of CD (%)
Collins et al. [17] Finland 83 AITD patients 4 4.8
Sategna-Guidetti et al. [18] Italy 152 AITD patients 5 3.3
Cuoco et al. [19] Italy 47 Chronic immune thyroiditis patients, 22 HT patients, and 23 GD patients 4 4.3
Valentino et al. [20] Italy 150 AITD patients 5 3.3
Berti et al. [21] Italy 172 AITD patients 5 3.5
Volta et al. [22] Italy 220 AITD patients 7 3.2
Larizza et al. [23] Italy 90 AITD pediatric patients 6 7.8
Meloni et al. [24] Italy 297 AITD patients 13 4.4
Mainardi et al. [25] Italy 100 AITD patients 2 2.0
De Martino et al. [26] Italy 91 AITD pediatric patients 9 9.9
Sari et al. [27] Turkey 101 AITD pediatric patients 5 5.0
Sahin et al. [28] Turkey 66 AITD pediatric patients 2 3.0
Farahid et al. [29] Jordan 914 HT patients 39 4.3
Hadithi et al. [30] Netherlands 104 HT patients 5 4.8
Mehrdad et al. [31] Iran 454 Hypothyroid patients 2 0.4
Ch’ng et al. [34] United Kingdom 111 GD patients 5 4.5
Mankai et al. [35] Tunisia 161 GD patients 3 1.9
Marwaha et al. [32] India 1154 Subjects (577 anti-TPO positive patients and 577 age- and sex-matched controls)   6.9 Among cases, 3.5 among controls
Teixeira et al. [33] Brazil 254 AITD patients (143 GD patients and 111 HT patients) 3 1.2
Zubarik et al. [44] United States of America 498 Hypothyroid patients 9 1.8
Sattar et al. [53] United States of America 302 AITD patients 7 2.3