<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> On Jun 16, 1996 10:01:42, '"Philip B. Glaser" <[log in to unmask]>' wrote: >Does anyone know if asymptomatic hypoglycemia (meaning they can't figure >out the cause) be a symptom of celiac disease? Thanks. >-Linda Glaser Well, hypoglycemia, low blood sugar, is a early symptom of Type II diabetes. Type II diabetes has a prevalence of 5 % in the general population, though concentrated in older people. No enhancement among celiacs has been found. It is not an autoimmune disease. (Type I diabetes is enhanced among celiac (5% vs. 0.5% in the general population) because the genes are nearby hence easily transmitted to offspring.) The hypoglycemia is connected with a genetic defect in production of insulin --too much in produced in response to high blood sugar.So the hypoglycemia tends to occur 2 or so hours after eating. Type II diabetes later develops. In the meantime there are proper diets emphasizing slowly metabolized carbohydrates so the body'r overreactive insulin generation is damped. Later if the body's insulin resistance builds up, still more insulin is produced and finally the ability to make insulin drops, causing the over high blood sugar of diabetes. Someone who already has untreated celiac thus malabsorption, gets less of the nourishment out of carbohydrates as well as proteins and fats. So lower blood sugar yes, but a healthy body regulates for that. If it can't then there's diabetes, likely Type II for older people. Type II diabetes is almost as badly underdiagnosed as celiac, There's probably more than one kind of it. Only an endocrinologist can straighten this out. Neither kind of diabetes causes or is caused by celiac in any case. Celiac is connected with protein recognition and metabolism. Diabetes with carbohydrate recognition and metabolism Kemp Randolph Long Island