Coeliac disease in the modern era: Severity of small bowel mucosal injury at diagnosis with analysis of clinical correlates and rate of improvement on a gluten free diet

Table 7 Independent predictors of a Marsh-Oberhuber score ≥ 3a at diagnosis of coeliac disease for 99 patients

Characteristic	Odds ratio	95%CI	P value
Age below 40 yr	0.38	0.08-1.85	0.231
Female gender	3.20	0.35-29.10	0.301
Positive serology	2.06	0.17-25.52	0.573
Symptoms for over 3 yr	0.70	0.04-11.37	0.804
Symptoms at diagnosis	4.54	0.51-40.60	0.176

CI: Confidence interval.