studies have made similar observations and up to 44% of the patients were found to be overweight or obese at the time of diagnosis of CeD. 2,3 Furthermore, many studies have uniformly shown that underweight patients at the time of diagnosis tend to gain weight on gluten-free diet (GFD). 4-6 Contradictory to that while 22% to 82% of overweight and obese patients gain weight on a GFD; 4,7 some of the overweight and obese patients with CeD lose weight on GFD. 6,8 As described above, many studies have looked into the effect of a GFD on BMI but the association between CeD and metabolic syndrome has not been explored in much detail. In a recent prospective study, Tortora et al. 9 reported an increase in the prevalence of metabolic syndrome from 2% at the time of diagnosis to 30% after 12 months of GFD. Although there is emerging evidence that a sizeable proportion of patients with CeD gain weight