In a genetic linkage study, Jain et al. [ 49] found that incorporating ODD and CD into the definition of affected increased evidence for linkage and implicated new chromosomal regions when compared to analyses examining the broader ADHD phenotype.
In the questionnaire, CD and NCGS definitions were given following the international guideline [ 2, 22].
Subjects meeting both case definitions (CD and UC) were classified as indeterminate colitis and were included in analyses of CD and UC.
The current definition of CD is based on the 14th International CD Symposium in 2011 which led to 'The Oslo definitions for celiac disease and related terms', published by Ludvigsson et al. in 2013 [ 6].
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The definition of "CD on maternal request" are various in the medical literatures.
In order to avoid the controversy in the definition of CD, we used the term "gluten sensitive enteropathy" rather than celiac disease to describe patients with any degrees of intestinal damage together with positive serologic tests.
The major strengths of this study are the population-based design, the definition of CD (all cases were biopsy verified), and that our study included all patients with T1D in Sweden.
