Celiac disease increases patients’ risk for neuropathy

A recent study found patients with biopsy-verified celiac disease had an increased risk for neuropathy.Using national registry data on neuropathy and small-intestinal biopsies performed at Sweden’s 28 pathology departments from June 1969 to February 2008, Jonas F. Ludvigsson, MD, PhD, from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, and colleagues calculated the relative and absolute risk for developing neuropathy in a nationwide population-based sample of patients with biopsy-verified celiac disease (n = 28,232) compared with age- and sex-matched controls (n = 139,473). Mean follow up was 10 years.