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Familial prevalence among first-degree relatives of celiac disease in North India.
Digestive and liver disease : official journal of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology and the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver - 1 Oct 2007
Grover R, Puri A S, Aggarwal N, Sakhuja P
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Prevalence of celiac disease is increased in first-degree relatives with reported prevalence rates in the west between 2.8 and 10%. Paucity of similar data from Asia and the Indian subcontinent prompted us to determine the familial prevalence of celiac disease in first-degree relatives of patients diagnosed with this disorder in Northern India. METHODS: One hundred sixty-nine...
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