Screening for coeliac disease in women with a history of recurrent miscarriage or infertility

Because subclinical coeliac disease may decrease fertility or complicate pr egnancy, we screened women with recurrent miscarriage of unknown aetiology (n = 63), unexplained infertility (n = 47) and infertility with a known cau se (n = 82), for anti-endomysium antibodies in serum to find undiagnosed co eliac disease. One woman (1.6%) with recurrent miscarriage, another woman ( 2.1%) with unexplained infertility and one woman (2.0%) in the control grou p (n = 51), were considered to have coeliac disease. We could not demonstra te a higher frequency of coeliac disease in women with infertility or recur rent miscarriage, but suggest that undiagnosed coeliac disease is common in women.