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Article: Celiac disease patients often left undiagnosed.(Digestive Disorders)
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- Family Practice News
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- April 15, 2007
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SAN DIEGO -- Celiac disease affects an estimated 1% of people in the United States, yet only about 3% of people with the disease are being diagnosed, Dr. Peter H.R. Green said at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology.
Reasons for the poor rate of diagnosis are multifactorial, said Dr. Green, who directs Columbia University's Celiac Disease Center in New York. They include:
* A shift to the silent form of celiac disease. "The patients and the doctors are on the wrong pages in the [medical] textbooks," he said. "'The patients got it wrong in that they forgot to get diarrhea, and the doctors got it wrong in that they ...