Why Do So Many Women Get Celiac Disease?

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Research has shown that the female immune response in women is more developed and aggressive than in men.  (Emphasis my own.)

Really? "Female immune response" is more aggressive and developed than in men?  (You don't say?! Or do men also have a "female immune response"???  Your editors clearly are not paying attention to the way cultural biases translate from one language to another.  This undermines the credibility of your work, while (possibly) also revealing the underlying gender bias in the heart of your reporting. 

Either fix this article and REPOST IT so everyone is aware of what you mean, or (next time) don't post it at all. 

7 hours ago, sc'Que? said:

Terribly written and effectively says nothing. For example: 

Really? "Female immune response" is more aggressive and developed than in men?  (You don't say?! Or do men also have a "female immune response"???  Your editors clearly are not paying attention to the way cultural biases translate from one language to another.  This undermines the credibility of your work, while (possibly) also revealing the underlying gender bias in the heart of your reporting. 

Either fix this article and REPOST IT so everyone is aware of what you mean, or (next time) don't post it at all. 

Geez, why so angry? I think we get the gist of this article without being offended or dissecting it for gender bias intent. 

We've clarified the sentence that seemed to trigger @sc'Que?, and no cultural (or gender) bias was intended. We're just summarizing the findings of this scientific publication. Thank you for pointing this out, as that sentence was a bit confusing. ?

10 hours ago, sc'Que? said:

Terribly written and effectively says nothing. For example: 

Really? "Female immune response" is more aggressive and developed than in men?  (You don't say?! Or do men also have a "female immune response"???  Your editors clearly are not paying attention to the way cultural biases translate from one language to another.  This undermines the credibility of your work, while (possibly) also revealing the underlying gender bias in the heart of your reporting. 

Either fix this article and REPOST IT so everyone is aware of what you mean, or (next time) don't post it at all. 

I believe the author/editor is simply guilty of missing the fact that stating, "the female immune response in women is more developed..." is redundant.   Accusing them of "gender bias" over what clearly appears to be an oversight of redundancy within a sentence is a little extreme, don't you think?

Either way, it's bad editing... on top of bad writing. This article went through a minimum of two different layers in the journalist paradigm and both/all failed to articulate the facts properly. Sorry, but that is BAD JOURNALISM. Celiac-dot-com need to be held to a HIGHER STANDARD than this... nonsense. 

@Scott Adams, I am not quibbling about facts. I am suggesting that holding Celiac-dot-com to a higher journalistic standard will make you more legible... while also providing better journalistic integrity.  

@Guest Gluten-Free, when we link articles like this to other educated folks and there is clearly a lack of editing standards, the content is de-valued for readers outside the Celiac-spectrum, undermining our overall goal of legitimacy.  We're not talking about a simple misspelling here. 

Always aspire to greater.... 

We always strive to do our best, and offer all content as a free service. Sorry but we don't have the budget of the Washington Post.

Here's something to contemplate. Maybe women are more open to accepting that they might have Celiac. This could skew the statistics. Men seem to think that they are too mocho to have an allergy or sensitivity. I am a man, and I am not that way, but I think men are like that much more than women.

I am a male who has gluten intolerance (to the point of thyroid & gut destruction), but not celiac.  I don't see that there is a benefit to knowing that women are more vulnerable to celiac, than men.  The goal of medical care should be that *every* doctor understands which symptoms could be related to celiac or gluten intolerance, and administers the appropriate tests (e.g. TTG) to every patient who has those symptoms.  I have not been impressed in the past, with the quality of writing from Jefferson Davis, and here we have an example which appears to raise the issue of Cultural Deafness.  Perhaps @ScottAdams should review Davis' articles thoroughly, before publication?

Jefferson Davis? Talk about glaring errors. As for the value of studying the difference between men and women with respect to celiac disease, clearly if women get celiac disease at twice the rate of men, there might be a significant difference in immune response, or other factors that could be very helpful in understanding the disease. This study, and its conclusions, however, really don't do much but speculate. Further study is needed.

On 7/24/2019 at 5:32 PM, Rakdan said:

Here's something to contemplate. Maybe women are more open to accepting that they might have Celiac. This could skew the statistics. Men seem to think that they are too mocho to have an allergy or sensitivity. I am a man, and I am not that way, but I think men are like that much more than women.

In Italy, men and women are tested at about the same rates. The difference is likely not due to acceptance, but an actual biological disparity.

On 7/23/2019 at 12:53 AM, sc'Que? said:

Terribly written and effectively says nothing. For example: 

Really? "Female immune response" is more aggressive and developed than in men?  (You don't say?! Or do men also have a "female immune response"???  Your editors clearly are not paying attention to the way cultural biases translate from one language to another.  This undermines the credibility of your work, while (possibly) also revealing the underlying gender bias in the heart of your reporting. 

Either fix this article and REPOST IT so everyone is aware of what you mean, or (next time) don't post it at all. 

Thanks for pointing out the grammatical oversight. The sentence has been corrected to read as intended: "Research has shown that the female immune response is more developed and aggressive than the male immune response."

Thank you.