Heart Failure and Celiac Disease

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With regard to celiac disease and cardiovascular disease, there are two conflicting schools of thought. The first suggests that the gluten-free diet might help people with celiac disease to reduce the risk of developing cardiovascular disease. The second suggest the opposite: that a gluten-free diet may leave people with celiac disease at greater risk of developing cardiovascular disease. What's the right answer?

Researchers have established a number of inflammatory markers as risk factors for atrial fibrillation (AF), but they know very little about how autoimmune diseases affect AF. A team of researchers recently set out to examine the association between celiac disease and AF in a large cohort of patients with biopsy-verified celiac disease.

New study on asthma, heart disease and celiac disease.

Population based studies in Sweden claim that celiacs have increased risk of heart disease and asthma.

Faced with cases of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy that seemed to coincide with celiac disease, a team of Turkish researchers recently set out to determine if a possible connection exists between the two conditions.

A recent report by Iranian doctors supports the idea that celiac disease, by means of a heightened immune response in the splenoportal axis, can lead to the development of idiopathic portal hypertension in susceptible affected patients.

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