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>Norman Dewar <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>This may seem a trivial question but why is the word disease
>> used in connection with celiac.  Personally I feel I have a live
>> long condition but I don't have a "disease" .  It isn't in many
>> ways a disease in the typical sense of the word.

Comment by Don Kasarda, Albany, CA

The term 'gluten-sensitive enteropathy" was coined, I think, by Dr.
Warren Strober of NIH, Bethesda, MD, some years ago and is fairly popular
amongst physicians.  In many ways, it is a more descriptive term.