Socioeconomic variation in the incidence of childhood coeliac disease in the UK.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Serological studies indicate that evidence of coeliac disease (CD) exists in about 1% of all children, but we lack estimates of current diagnostic patterns among children and how they vary by socioeconomic group.

Methods

We identified all children aged 0-18 years between 1993 and 2012 who were registered with general practices across the UK that contribute to a large population-based general practice database. The incidence of CD was evaluated in each quintile of the Townsend index of deprivation and stratified by age, sex, country and calendar year.

Results

Among 2,063,421 children, we identified 1247 CD diagnoses, corresponding to an overall CD incidence of 11.9 per 100,000 person-years, which was similar across the UK countries and higher in girls than i

SUBMITTER: Zingone F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4413865 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature