News: Celiac.com: Reuters Health News Summary

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An experimental blood test accurately identifies people who do, or don´t, have celiac disease, even if they are following gluten-free diets, researchers say. Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder that affects roughly one percent of people in the U.S. Those with the disease must avoid foods that contain ...

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[Jmg]

This is potentially huge. The summary Admin linked doesn't have much detail so I'll post this from the full article on Reuters Health:

 

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Sarna’s team tried their test on 62 patients with celiac disease and 19 individuals without celiac disease who were on a gluten-free diet, 10 patients with celiac disease who were eating foods containing gluten and 52 healthy individuals following normal diets. They also used the currently available celiac tests on these participants for comparison.

The old tests detected celiac disease in 9 out of 10 patients who weren’t on a gluten-free diet. But the old tests identified celiac disease in only 4 of the 62 patients who’d been following a gluten-free diet.

The new test, by comparison, was 96 percent accurate in distinguishing celiac disease patients from people who didn’t have celiac disease but were still following gluten-free diets.

It was 95 percent accurate for distinguishing celiac disease patients who were eating gluten-containing foods from healthy individuals following normal diets, the researchers report in Gastroenterology.

“We calculated that our test is stronger to exclude rather than confirm the diagnosis of celiac disease in gluten sensitive persons,” Sarna said. “Although we need more research in this field, we propose that the test be used to exclude celiac disease in persons on a gluten-free diet,” he told Reuters Health by email.

 

[Awol cast iron stomach]

Agreed this would be amazing! As the challenge can be extremely difficult for some people to complete. 

While often times people can be critical of someone desperate enough to go gluten-free often times they can have a misdiagnosis in their medical history , coupled with some pretty extreme symptoms etc that spurs them to such extremes.

Not many people would choose to give up pizza, bagels, pasta, cookies pick your poison if they didn't have to.

This would help.