title: Is coeliac disease prevalent among adolescent psychiatric patients?
abstract: Coeliac disease (CD) occasionally presents solely with neuropsychiatric symptoms and may predispose to mental and behavioural disorders. This study screened new adolescent psychiatric outpatients (n = 140) in the Department of Adolescent Psychiatry of the Hospital for Children and Adolescents, Helsinki, using immunoglobulin A antibody to tissue transglutaminase. The prevalence rate of CD was found to be 1 in 140.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results do not suggest that undetected CD is markedly overrepresented among adolescent psychiatric outpatients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Adolescent Psychiatry, Hospital for Children and Adolescents, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Huch, Finland. paivi.pynnonen@hus.fi
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pynnönen
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Isometsä
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Aalberg
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Verkasalo
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Savilahti
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D017677:Age Distribution; D002446:Celiac Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002648:Child; D015331:Cohort Studies; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015995:Prevalence; D018570:Risk Assessment; D017678:Sex Distribution; D011503:Transglutaminases / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D011503:Transglutaminases