The Importance of Electrocardiographic Evaluation in Patients with Celiac Disease

At the present study, study we aimed to analyze the risk factors for cardiac arrhythmias related disease factors by evaluating some ventricular repolarization parameters in the electrocardiographic (ECG) evaluation of CD. The study was conducted retrospectively from the files of the patients. The ECG evaluation of 63 patients aged 5-18 years diagnosis with CD and 63 healthy control group in Adana City Training and Research Hospital, between 01.2018-11.2022. Patients who were taking any drugs, who had a chronic disease and/or abnormal tests (vitamin B12, folate, tissue transglutaminase, anti-endomysium antibody titers) were excluded from the study. The ventricular repolarization parameters (QT interval, QTc interval, QT dispersion, QTc dispersion, Tp-e interval, Tp-e/QT, Tp-e/QTc) analyzed on ECG and compared both groups. The measured ventricular repolarization parameters of the patients and control groups were not statistically different. From the ECG data, it was found that the QTc min value was higher in patients diagnosed before 5 years old than the patients diagnosed after 8 years old. While the QTc dispersion was higher in patients diagnosed after 8 years old than the patients with an age at diagnosed before 5 years old. It was found that the values of QT min, QT max, and QT in the ECG were influenced by the duration of the disease and significantly high related with the disease duration (more than 5 years). We found that QTc dispersion was higher in patients with a later diagnosis. This suggests that cardiac involvement is also increased in patients with a late diagnosis.