Shared susceptibility for celiac disease and inflammatory bowel disease?
Shared susceptibility for celiac disease and inflammatory bowel disease?
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乳糜泻和炎症性肠病有共同的易感性吗?
DOI:
10.1080/00365520802158630
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发表时间:
2008
影响因子:
1.9
通讯作者:
Landgren,Ola
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文献类型:
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作者:
Gao,Ying;Linet,MarthaS;Gridley,Gloria;Mellemkjaer,Lene;Hemminki,Kari;Goldin,LynnR;Landgren,Ola
TO THE EDITOR: We read with interest the study by Leeds et al. assessing the relationship between celiac disease and inflammatory bowel disease [1]. In their investigation, they found an increased prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease among celiac disease patients. Interestingly, in a recent report it is suggested that celiac disease and ulcerative colitis might share common genetic risk factors involving tight junction-mediated barrier defects of the bowel [2]. Inspired by these facts, we sought to conduct a large Scandinavian population-based study to investigate whether there is evidence for co-occurrence of celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease, and other autoimmune disorders. We took advantage of an existing large Scandinavian population-based database which has been described previously [3Á5]. Briefly, the database includes all lymphoma patients (n041, 179) diagnosed in Sweden (1958Á98) and Denmark (1968Á 97), 93,781 population-based controls, and all their linkable 1st-degree blood relatives (n0371, 043)[3Á 5]. Thus, a total of 506,003 individuals were included in the database. Through record-linkage with the nation-wide inpatient registers in Sweden and Denmark, we captured hospital-discharge record data on celiac disease and a wide range of 32 other autoimmune and related disorders [4]. For lymphoma patients, we restricted the information on celiac disease and other autoimmune disorders to one year prior to the date of lymphoma diagnosis. We used x2 statistics to determine whether patients with celiac disease had excess co-occurrence of inflammatory bowel disease and other autoimmune disorders.In our study, we were able to confirm and extend the results by Leeds et al.[1]. First, we defined a total of 253 individuals (prevalence rate Â1 per 2000) with a hospital-discharge diagnosis of celiac disease. Second, when evaluating the co-occurrence of celiac disease and other autoimmune disorders, we found persons with (versus without) celiac disease to have a higher frequency of ulcerative colitis (n08, pB0. 0001) as well as Crohn’s disease (n06, pB0. 0001). Also, based on small numbers, we found co-occurrence for other autoimmune conditions (Table I).