A new study published in the July 2009 edition of Gastroenterology found that young people today are 4.5 times more likely to have celiac disease than young people 50 years ago. Another alarming fact is that people with undiagnosed celiac disease have a 4 fold increase of death than in patients without celiac disease.
One of the study authors comments, "Celiac disease has become much more common in the last 50 years, and we don't know why."
He goes on to state, "This study suggests that we may need to consider looking for celiac disease in the general population, more like we do in testing for cholesterol or blood pressure."
Immune responses to gluten are not uncommon. Get checked.
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