Can Celiac Disease Present Along With Childhood Obesity?

Olga Eliyah Livshits¹, Ron Shauol², Ram Reifen¹, Torsten Matthias³ and Aaron Lerner^{3, 4,}

¹The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

²Pediatric 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

³AESKU.KIPP Institute, Wendelsheim, Germany

⁴B. Rappaport School of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

Cite this paper:
Olga Eliyah Livshits, Ron Shauol, Ram Reifen, Torsten Matthias and Aaron Lerner. Can Celiac Disease Present Along With Childhood Obesity?. International Journal of Celiac Disease. 2017; 5(1):19-23. doi: 10.12691/ijcd-5-1-7

Abstract

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.

Keywords:
celiac disease obesity overweight gluten free diet weight body mass index

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