Over the past few days I’ve watched as a large number of people have thoroughly discussed the recent report from the Mayo Clinic that Celiac Disease is diagnosed in the United States 4 times more often than it was 50 years ago. At first I had a lot of trouble figuring out why this was even a story. In the past 10 years alone their has been a surge in Celiac diagnosis, which one would think that this could be credited to doctors better understanding the disease and how to correctly diagnose it, right? According to the study, however, something else has made the celiac-antibody 4 times more common than it was 50 years ago.
Recently I spent some time reading about this story on WebMD and here is what the study found:
- The samples from the contemporary group of young people were 4.5 times more likely to have the celiac antibody than the samples drawn in the 1950s.
- The contemporary samples taken from older men whose ages matched the current ages of the recruits were four times as likely to have the antibody.
- During 45 years of follow-up, undiagnosed celiac disease was associated with a fourfold increased risk of death.
It appears that in a 2003 study, Murray and colleagues found that Celiac Disease was being diagnosed at a rate that was nine times higher than just a decade before. The article goes on to explain Hygiene Hypothesis, which is basically the theory that Celiac diagnosis is on the rise due to the fewer number of germs we are exposed to on a daily basis.
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