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On Oct. 31  Kemp Randolph <[log in to unmask]> said:
 
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>Ralston is misinformed about the incidence of celiac, however. They thought
>there are only 100,000 diagnosed in the US, though  they know we're very
>vocal. That would correspond to 1 in 250. What is the current diagnosed
>value here? Isn't it 1 in about 800, hence about 320,000?
 
Sorry for the arithmetic slip --100,000 would be one in 2500 ---that is the
"traditional" wrong number. Everything reported at the Baltimore meeting
pointed to 1 in 200-300, the same as in Europe. The number now diagnosed is
somewhere inbetween, thus my question.
 
                      Kemp Randolph
                      Long Island
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