Screening for celiac disease in patients with osteoporosis.

Objective: Whether patients with osteoporosis should be screened for celiac disease is controversial. The objective of this study was to measure the prevalence of asymptomatic celiac disease in a cohort of patients with osteoporosis.

Methods: We studied 140 patients (133 postmenopausal women and 7 men) aged 40-75 years (mean age, 62.