PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | celiac disease |
| Phenotype | C0024523|malabsorption syndrome |
| Sentences | 2 |
| PubMedID- 24284619 | There is a general agreement in the literature that more than 75% of untreated adult celiac disease (cd) patients with an overt malabsorption syndrome at diagnosis suffer from a loss of bone mass [3,4,5,6,7,8,9], and this complication also affects about half the patients with subclinical cd, presenting with minimal, transient and apparently unrelated symptoms [3,9], or asymptomatic patients diagnosed because of their first-degree kinship [4]. |
| PubMedID- 25130636 | Osteoporosis or osteopenia are typically present in untreated adult symptomatic celiac disease with an overt malabsorption syndrome, but is found in about 50 % in suboptimally treated celiac patients, subclinical patients and asymptomatic adult celiac patients, too. |
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