[Anthropometric measures of children in the period of clinical manifestation of celiac disease].

We have analyzed the data of children's physical development who have celiac disease. The purpose of the study is to analyze the interrelations of celiac patients' anthropometric data with the age of diagnostics and the disease duration. 186 children with morphologically verified celiac disease at the age of from 9 months to 16 years were included. It was shown that the patients of pre-preschool age have the deficiency of body weight much more often than the growth delay. As they grow older and when the disease duration increases first of all we meet with stunting, as the result a number of children with normal growth at school age decreases to 23, 3 %, and the frequency of somatogenic nanism exceeds 50%. We have revealed the negative correlation between the symptoms duration of the disease and the deviation of growth data. We have confirmed the point of view that the presence of strong deviations of data of physical development which children have is the indication for the screening for celiac disease.