Cardiovascular risk factors in coeliac disease (ARCTIC): a protocol of multicentre series of studies.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

There is only limited and controversial information available on the cardiovascular (CV) risk in coeliac disease (CD). In this study, we plan to investigate the body composition and CV risk-related metabolic parameters at the diagnosis of CD and on a gluten-free diet in a Hungarian cohort of patients with CD.

Methods and analysis

This study consists of two case-control studies and a prospective cohort study, involving newly diagnosed and treated patients with CD with age and sex-matched non-CD control subjects with an allocation ratio of 1:1. CD-related symptoms, quality of life, quality of the diet and CV risk will be assessed with questionnaires. Our primary outcomes are body composition parameters, which will be estimated with InBody 770 device. Secondary out

SUBMITTER: Vereczkei Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10503320 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature