Review for 10.1186/s12876-018-0740-z (2018)

Reviewer ’s report  
 
Title: Rate and determinants of non -adherence to a gluten -free diet and nutritional status 
assessment in children and adolescents with celiac disease in a tertiary Brazilian referral center: a 
cross -sectional and retrospective study.  
 
Version: 1 Date: 01 Nov 2017  
 
Reviewer: Diana Sacchi  
 
Reviewer's report:  
 
Dear Authors,  
 
This is a well -written article that does identify an important gap in Celiac Disease (CD) 
treatment in children and a current "hot topic" in daily clinical practice in CD. However, to make 
this paper publishable, I would suggest the authors need to review the article due  to the presence 
of some linguistic errors (e.g. GDF instead of GFD in the abstract). Moreover, in the discussion 
the authors could strengthen the importance of the education on CD and the adherence of a GFD 
not only to the pediatric patients but also to t he parents as well, due to the fact that most of the 
questionnaires are obviously answered by the mothers.  
 
Your sincerely,  
Diana Sacchi.  
Are the methods appropriate and well described?  
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Yes 
 
Does the work include the necessary controls?  
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No 
 
Are the conclusions drawn adequately supported by  the data shown?  
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Yes 
 
Are you able to assess any statistics in the manuscript or would you recommend an  
additional statistical review?  
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assessment in your comments to the editors.  
 
I am able to assess the statistics  
 
Quality of written English  
Please indicate the quality of language in the manuscript:  
 
Needs some language corrections before being published  
 
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