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A recent post referred to Dr Peter Greene's 2006 book, saying that Dr
Greene stated it takes an average of 9 years for a person to get a
celiac diagnosis.
I'm surprised at that 9 year figure. The NIH Consensus Development
Conference on Celiac Disease in June 2004 concluded that the average
time to get a diagnosis - once a person seriously started seeking
medical help - was actually 11+ years!
Despite NIH's campaign, since that conference, to educate the medical
profession about celiac disease, I doubt that the diagnostic
situation had improved very much between 2004 and 2006; not enough to
knock 2 years of that disgraceful time frame.
(In Italy, all children are required to be tested, by law.)
Does anyone know how Dr Greene arrived at his estimate? (I haven't
read his book.)
Marshall
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