title: The Evaluation of The Effects of Paternal And Maternal Silent Coeliac Disease on Birthweight and Gestational Age in Newborns.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Coeliac disease is a chronic disease and is common all over the world. It has many other associated systemic side effects. This study investigated the effect of paternal and maternal silent coeliac disease on birthweight and gestational age in newborns.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study group consisted of 81 newborns who were hospitalized for prematurity or term-intrauterine growth retardation. The parents of premature and/or small for gestational age babies born with coeliac disease-specific antigens were investigated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The differences were not statistically significant in fathers' tissue transglutaminase levels between premature appropriate gestational age, premature small gestational age and term small gestational age infants (p > 0.05), but statistically significant in mothers (p < 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Silent coeliac disease may occur in parents, especially in mothers of preterm and small for gestational age infants, even in the absence of apparent clinical indications.
authors.affiliation: Ministry of Health Education and Research Hospital, Erzurum, Turkey.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kahveci
authors.affiliation: Regional Training and Research Hospital, Department of Pediatric Neurology, Diyarbakir, Turkey, turan78tr@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: M I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Turan
authors.affiliation: Regional Training and Research Hospital, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Erzurum, Turkey.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cayir
authors.affiliation: Ministry of Health, Nenehatun Children's and Obstetric-gynecology Hospital, Erzurum, Turkey.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Laloglu
authors.affiliation: Istanbul University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ertekin
authors.affiliation: Ataturk University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Erzurum, Turkey.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Orbak