You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
EULAR 2014: Scientific Abstracts
Abstracts accepted for publication. Osteoporosis
AB0803 Celiac Disease and Positive IGA Tissue Transglutaminase in Patients with Distal Radius or Ankle Fracture: Interim Analysis
  1. A.M. Hjelle1,
  2. P. Mielnik1,
  3. E. Apalset2,
  4. G.S. Tell3
  1. 1Department of Rheumatology, District General Hospital of Førde, Førde
  2. 2Department of Rheumatology, Haukeland University Hospital
  3. 3Departement of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Abstract

Background Patients with celiac disease (CD) have low mineral bone density [1]. Evidence of increased fracture risk in CD patients is conflicting. Studies are heterogeneous and difficult to compare, however overall findings indicate an increased risk of fracture [2].

Objectives To investigate whether patients with CD or positive IgA tissue transglutaminase (TTG) are at increased risk of distal radius or ankle fracture compared to healthy age- and sex matched controls.

Methods Patients over the age of 40 with acute distal radius or ankle fracture and controls with no fracture are included in this case control study. Bone mineral density (BMD) of the hips and spine is measured, history of previous fracture, comorbidities, medication, physical activity, smoking habits, body mass index and nutritional factors are registered. Serum analysis including TTG is performed. In order to get sufficient statistical power we estimated a priori that 400 patients and 200 controls were needed.

Results After including 134 patients with fracture, four (3.0%) had previously diagnosed CD, and seven (5.2%) had TTG, a combined total of 8.2%. Among 94 controls, one had CD and two positive TTG, a total of 3.2%. This difference is not statistically significant. The patients had significantly lower BMD than controls (T-score (+SD) L1-L4 -1.407±0.249, controls -0.358±0.287, and T-score of total hip -1.461±0.174, controls -0.649±0.242). Patients with fracture had a longer history of smoking (p=0.014), and a higher proportion were current smokers (p=0.046).

View this table:
Table 1

Conclusions Interim analyses indicate that adult patients over the age of 40 with fracture of the distal radius or ankle may have å greater risk of CD or positive TTG. Although the proportion of CD or positive TTG were more than twice that in controls, the differences were not statistically significant. We are continuing accruing patients, and updated analyses will be presented.

References

  1. Bianchi, M.L. and M.T. Bardella, Bone in celiac disease. Osteoporos Int, 2008. 19(12): p. 1705-16.

  2. Olmos, M., et al., Systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies on the prevalence of fractures in coeliac disease. Dig Liver Dis, 2008. 40(1): p. 46-53.

Disclosure of Interest None declared

DOI 10.1136/annrheumdis-2014-eular.1238

https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2014-eular.1238

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.