eng Science and Education Publishing International Journal of Celiac Disease 2334-3486 2017-03-02 5 1 19 23 10.12691/ijcd-5-1-7 IJCD2017517 article Olga Eliyah Livshits 1 Ron Shauol 2 Ram Reifen 2 Torsten Matthias 3 Aaron Lerner aaronlerner1948@gmail.com 3 4 The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition Unit, Meyer Children's Hospital of Haifa, Rambam Medical Center, B. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel AESKU.KIPP Institute, Wendelsheim, Germany Celiac disease is an autoimmune, gluten-induced enteropathy with a prevalence of 1-1.5% in Western populations. It may present with classical gastrointestinal symptoms, non-gastrointestinal symptoms or as an asymptomatic disease. Cases of childhood obesity in gluten sensitive enteropathy have been recently reported. The study aimed to retrospectively evaluate the rate of overweight and obesity prevalence in a large sample of celiac children in comparison to non-celiac group, and to investigate the weight dynamics following gluten-free diet. Among 390 patients, 68 (17.4%) (29 boys) were overweight or obese at diagnosis. Gluten-free diet did not shown a beneficial effect on weight. The study demonstrates comparable rates of overweight and obesity in celiac versus non-celiac population. http://pubs.sciepub.com/ijcd/5/1/7/ijcd-5-1-7.pdf celiac disease obesity overweight gluten free diet weight body mass index