Influence of infant feeding and gluten intake on coeliac disease

Influence of infant feeding and gluten intake on coeliac disease.

OBJECTIVES To study the impact of infant feeding habits and actual gluten intake on gluten induced enteropathy. METHODS A case-referent design, controlling for the HLA alleles conferring increased genetic risk, was used. All 164 siblings of 97 probands were investigated. Eighty five of the siblings, carrying the genes DQA1*0501-DQB1*02 conferring susceptibility for the disease, were investiga...

Infant Feeding in Coeliac Disease.

Gluten intolerance, gluten enteropathy, and coeliac disease.

Coeliac disease, gluten-free diet, and malignancy.

Two hundred and two patients with coeliac disease or idiopathic steatorrhoea previously reported from this unit have been reviewed after a further 10 years of follow-up. Of 20 more deaths, 10 were due to malignancy. A separate study was made of all patients with histologically confirmed coeliac disease seen to the end of 1972 and followed up to the end of 1974. Twenty-one of the 43 deaths in th...

Coeliac disease and noncoeliac gluten sensitivity.

The spectrum of gluten-related disorders was restricted to coeliac disease and wheat allergy, but the new contemporary entity referred to as noncoeliac gluten sensitivity has gained recognition mainly in adults but also in children. Noncoeliac gluten sensitivity is defined as the presence of a variety of symptoms related to gluten ingestion in patients in whom coeliac disease and wheat allergy ...