AIM: To determine @entity1593 ( @entity1593 ) prevalence and associated manifestations or risk factors in healthy adult Emiratis. METHODS: It is a cross-sectional prospective study, recruiting 1197 (573 @entity1 and 624 @entity1 ) healthy Emiratis between September 2007 and April 2008 among those who went to Al Ain Hospital to undertake the prenuptial examination. Test for anti-tissue transglutaminase (tTG) IgA antibodies was used for @entity1593 diagnosis. Subjects with positive results in the anti tTG antibodies assay were also tested for anti-endomysial (EMA) IgA antibodies. A structured interview was used to collect basic demographic and clinical recall data including: information on name, contact address, age, gender, education status, previous diagnosis of @entity1593 , diagnosis of @entity1593 in 1(st) degree relatives and history of "chronic @entity294 , @entity417 , @entity10 , @entity99 , @entity6 , @entity5 , and @entity1374 ". RESULTS: Fourteen blood samples (1.17%; 14/1197) were seropositive for @entity1593 . The latent @entity1593 seropositive @entity1 were 13 @entity1 and 1 @entity1 and therefore the seroprevalence of @entity1593 was 1:86 (14/1197) for adult Emiratis: 1:44 (13/573) for @entity1 and 1:624 for @entity1 . Binary logistic regression revealed that history of @entity417 (crude OR = 7.09; 95%CI: 2.32-21.61; P = 0.003) and being a @entity1 (OR = 14.46; 95%CI: 1.89-110.91; P = 0.001) were associated with @entity1593 seropositivity. Whereas, the @entity1374 showed a positive association with @entity1593 seropositivity that approach statistical significance (OR = 11.30; 95%CI: 1.32-96.95; P = 0.09) and therefore was included in the multiple logistic regression analysis, which showed that @entity1593 seropositivity is independently associated only with history of @entity417 (OR = 4.58; 95%CI: 1.45-14.48; P = 0.01) and being a @entity1 @entity1 (OR = 10.47; 95%CI: 1.33-82.14; P = 0.026). CONCLUSION: Compared to @entity1 the @entity1593 seroprevalence among @entity1 was remarkably higher. The @entity1593 association with @entity1 and @entity417 is of importance from a public health perspective.

Seroprevalence of XXXX among United Arab Emirates healthy adult nationals: a gender disparity.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['women', 'woman', 'patients', 'man', 'person', 'men'] @entity417 :: ('MESH:D000740', 'Disease') :: ['chronic anemia', 'anemia'] @entity1593 :: ('MESH:D002446', 'Disease') :: ['celiac disease', 'CD'] @entity6 :: ('MESH:D003920', 'Disease') :: ['diabetes'] @entity5 :: ('MESH:D009369', 'Disease') :: ['tumor'] @entity294 :: ('MESH:D003967', 'Disease') :: ['diarrhea'] @entity10 :: ('MESH:D006261', 'Disease') :: ['headache'] @entity99 :: ('MESH:D056486', 'Disease') :: ['hepatitis'] @entity1374 :: ('MESH:D013959', 'Disease') :: ['thyroid disorder']
@entity1593 :: (MESH:D002446,Disease) :: ['celiac disease']
