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In <[log in to unmask]>, on 07/10/97
   at 05:02 PM, I said

>> Dr. Maki from Finland reported that only 23%
>>of some 3000 celiacs diagnosed by biopsy had classical (meaning
>>gastrointestinal?) symptoms. 36% came from minor symptoms and 13% by
>>chance.

The complete breakdown is:

classic symptoms        24%
minor symptoms          36%
associated disease      27%
by chance               13%

51% of this group had another (autoimmune) disease:

IDDM (insulin dependent diabetes)     16%
thyroid  syndromes                    20%
Sjogren's                             10%
rheumatoid arthritis                   5%

That diabetes percentage seems high compared to published results, but,
depending on the definition of IDDM used, may include some non-autoimmune
Type IIs using insulin. (There are several more than two kinds of diabetes
mellitus and everyone tries to shoehorn them into only two.)

                              Kemp Randolph
                              Long Island

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