Increased prevalance of Celiac Disease 10/21/2011
The prevalence of Celiac Disease has increased five-fold overall since 1974. This increase was not due to increased sensitivity of testing, but rather due to an increasing number of subjects that lost the immunological tolerance to gluten in their adulthood. Natural history of celiac disease autoimmunity in a USA cohort followed since 1974. Ann Med. 2010 Oct;42(7):530-8. 1 Comment | If you would like to be notified by email when new posts are made in this section, please subscribe to the RSS feed below.
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