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 9 Independent predictors of a Marsh-Oberhuber score < 3 on repeat duodenal biopsy, at least 6 mo after diagnosis of coeliac disease for 87 patients

Characteristic	Odds ratio	95%CI	P value
Age below 40 yr	1.16	0.63-4.31	0.313
Female gender	0.90	0.32-2.52	0.834
Negative serology at time of repeat biopsy	0.72	0.26-1.99	0.524
Asymptomatic at repeat biopsy	1.07	0.41-2.80	0.899
Gluten-free diet	23.57	2.61-212.99	0.005

CI: Confidence interval.