Here is the article published today by the national daily newspapers (ASCA).

“Celiac disease and ‘now four and a half times more’ common than it was in the ’50s. This was stated by ‘a study from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester (Minnesota, USA) published in the journal Gastroenterology.”Celiac disease and ‘become more’ common over the past 50 years, and we do not know why ‘- says Joseph Murray, a gastroenterologist who led the study -. Something in our environment and’ changed, and made it much more ‘common” .

In patients with celiac disease the presence of a particular protein, gluten, triggers an immune system attack on the damage of the intestinal villi (folds of the thin walls of the intestine that increase its surface for the absorption of nutrients). Disturbances due to celiac disease may include diarrhea, abdominal discomfort, weight loss, anemia, loss of teeth and severe osteoporosis or premature.

The study says Murray, highlights the need ‘for greater awareness of celiac disease, both among physicians and between patients:”The problem’ that the symptoms of celiac disease are variable and may be mistaken for other diseases more ‘common, such as irritable bowel syndrome.”

Some studies – continues Specialist – suggest that for every person to whom and ‘diagnosed with celiac disease there are another 30 that even though she was living, they never received the diagnosis. ”And now affects one person in a hundred. The increase of patients, in combination with the deadly ‘, suggest that celiac disease become’ a significant problem for public health. To get it on time – concluded Murray – we should start talking about screening. We need more prevention in celiac disease ‘than it has in the case of cholesterol or hypertension.”