Serological screening for Celiac Disease in 382 pre-schoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Table 2 Comparison between the prevalence of celiac disease (CD) in our sample and in the Italian pediatric population (Mustalahti et al., [12])

	Outcome 1# Number of subjects	Outcome 2# Number of subjects	Total Number of subjects	Chi-square statistic value
Group 1 Our study	10	372	382	0.0131*
Group 2 Mustalahti et al., 2010 [12]	29	2616	2645
Total	39	2988	3027

*The result is significant at p <0.05
1# Children with celiac disease (CD) defined as “previously diagnosed biopsy-proven CD patients plus screening detected individuals with both anti-tTG and EMA positivity”
2# Children without CD defined as “previously diagnosed biopsy-proven CD patients plus screening detected individuals with both anti-tTG and EMA positivity”

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