Celiac disease could be at least four times more common today than it was 50 years ago, according to a new study from University of Minnesota.
This study has been conducted in United States, but it’s a fair demonstration about the terrible fact – Celiac Disease is on the rise.
One of the common suggestions is that celiac disease is on the rise due to increased diagnosis and awareness.
However this latest study, published in July/2009 in the Gastroenterology’ journal, suggests that increased awareness and better diagnosis might not explain rising numbers of celiac disease sufferers.
According to the website http://www.nutraingredients.com/
“Researchers examined 9,133 frozen blood samples taken from US Air Force recruits between 1948 and 1954 for the antibody that people with celiac disease produce in reaction to gluten, and found that only about one in seven hundred tested positive, or 0.2 percent.
They then compared this to rates of celiac disease among 12,768 people who either had similar years of birth (i.e. were born around 1930) or who were of a similar age to the original donors at the time of sampling (i.e. young adults today). The rates of celiac disease were 0.8 percent and 0.9 percent respectively, or a 4 to 4.5-fold increase. “
The study named “Increased Prevalence and Mortality in Undiagnosed Celiac Disease” were conducted by:
Alberto Rubio–Tapia, Robert A. Kyle, Edward L. Kaplan, Dwight R. Johnson, William Page, Frederick Erdtmann, Tricia L. Brantner, W. Ray Kim, Tara K. Phelps, Brian D. Lahr, Alan R. Zinsmeister, L. Joseph Melton, Joseph A. Murray.
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