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Marshall Lasky <[log in to unmask]>
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<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>>

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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