TY - JOUR T1 - Immediate effect on fertility of a gluten-free diet in women with untreated coeliac disease JF - Gut JO - Gut DO - 10.1136/gut.2010.232892 SP - gut.2010.232892 AU - Raffaella Nenna AU - Maurizio Mennini AU - Laura Petrarca AU - Margherita Bonamico Y1 - 2010/01/01 UR - http://gut.bmj.com/content/early/2010/12/29/gut.2010.232892.abstract N2 - In a recent paper in Gut, describing a Swedish population-based cohort, Zugna et al found that women with coeliac disease had normal fertility, but their fertility had decreased in the 2 years preceding the diagnosis of coeliac disease.1This study provides important answers to fertility problems in patients with coeliac disease by analysing a nationwide database. The results, however, must be interpreted with caution. This paper may be considered confusing because the role of coeliac disease as one of the causes of infertility has been underestimated taking into account population studies in general. Infertility, spontaneous abortion and delayed puberty represent subclinical coeliac disease presentations … ER -