ESPE Abstracts

Introduction: The prevalence of celiac disease is 5–10 times higher in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) than in the general population. Therefore, celiac serology should be screened intermittently in type 1 DM patients. However, anti-tissue transglutaminase (anti-TTG) antibody elevation may be detected incidentally at the time of type 1 DM diagnosis and regress spontaneously during follow-up, without medical or dietary interventions.<p clas...