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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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