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Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Are environmental factors causing celiac disease? 

Fascinating article from the Celiac.com newsletter. If the autoimmune factors surrounding celiac disease are thought to be hereditary, why is it increasing in the population at such a dramatic rate?

New Study Shows Celiac Disease on the Rise, Striking Later in Life

I was symptomatic as a kid, but didn't get dramatically ill until 2003. None of my family members have been diagnosed with celiac disease. But then, none of them have been tested, either.

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