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Dr. Peter H.R. Green, M.D.,
Director of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University

is prominently featured in a newly released book entitled

"The Autoimmune Connection: Essential Information for Women
on Diagnosis, Treatment, and Getting on with your Life"

by Rita Baron-Faust, medical journalist and author of "Being Female"
and Jill P. Byon, M.D., Professor of Medicine,
NYU School of Medicine and
Director, Lupus Clinic, Hospital for Joint Diseases.

The authors have written a groundbreaking book and
outstanding resource for women with cutting-edge information
about autoimmune diseases,

the common thread that many chronic illnesses share,
and how these autoimmune diseases impact women's lives.

In a substantial section devoted to celiac disease,

the authors provide Dr. Peter Green with a significant forum
in which he shares his renowned expertise.

Dr. Green gives the reader a complete and comprehensive explanation
of celiac disease and its impact on the autoimmune system:

"The intestines become so permeable that many proteins go through
and are presented as foreign to the immune system where that would
not normally occur, which may result in a 'saturation' of the immune system,
in an overreactive immune system, that eventually reacts against self,"
Dr. Green explains.

Quoted extensively, Dr. Green discusses the range of symptoms and
the many autoimmune diseases associated with celiac disease, including
type 1 diabetes, anemia, thyroid disease and osteoporosis.

"It's thought that you get the celiac disease first, then you get these
autoantibodies to other organs, and then you get the other organ disease,
and much later the celiac gets diagnosed. So maybe if you can diagnose celiac
early enough, you may prevent these other autoimmune diseases,"
states Dr. Green.

He also addresses more serious complications, including an increased
risk of malignancies, which can result from untreated celiac disease.

Dr. Green explains each of the tests for celiac disease--
what one may need and what they mean--

and provides guidelines for how to treat celiac disease and how
it can affect an individual over a lifetime.

By providing this comprehensive review of celiac disease,

Dr. Peter Green makes this book a very important and valuable
resource for women, both those diagnosed with celiac disease,
who also face complications from secondary autoimmune diseases,

as well as those who may need to consider celiac disease as an underlying
cause of an autoimmune disease.

FROM: [log in to unmask] (Laura Leon, Ed.D.)

* Visit the Celiac Web Page at www.enabling.org/ia/celiac/index.html *