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Table 3 Prevalence of anti-MICA autoantibodies in patients and healthy controls

From: Autoantibodies against MHC class I polypeptide-related sequence A are associated with increased risk of concomitant autoimmune diseases in celiac patients

Anti-MICA

Patients with celiac disease

Patients with autoimmune disease

Healthy controls

 

n = 383

n = 428

n = 200

Positive

159 (41.5%)

35 (8.2%)a

7 (3.5%)b

Negative

224 (58.5%)

393 (91.8%)

193 (96.5%)

  1. a P <0.0001; odds ratio = 7.97; 95% CI = 5.38, 11.90. b P <0.0001; odds ratio = 19.57; 95% confidence interval = 8.96, 42.74.