When someone with celiac disease eats gluten, their immune system damages the small intestine’s lining, preventing nutrient absorption. Symptoms include bloating, diarrhea, fatigue, joint pain ...

It affects around one in 70 Australians, but only 20 per cent of this group are diagnosed. If you have coeliac disease, eating foods that contain gluten can damage your villi, structures in the small ...

Coeliac disease affects 2 million Americans and causes the immune system to attack the gut after gluten consumption. Often ...

Coeliac disease can disrupt your body’s absorption of nutrients such as iron, vitamin B12, and folate due to damage to the small intestine. So despite a lack of symptoms, doctors may flag these ...

One study found some people with coeliac disease experienced damage to their small intestine with as little as 10 milligrams of gluten per day. For context, one slice of bread contains 2.5 grams ...

Here's what the most common symptoms of celiac disease are, what causes it and how it is usually treated.

In cases of active coeliac disease, researchers discovered that the enzyme tissue transglutaminase 2 (tTG2) ... leading to inflammation and small intestine villous atrophy.

Doctors mainly test for celiac disease using blood tests and small intestine biopsies. Testing for celiac disease aims to identify certain celiac-linked antibodies. These are proteins the immune ...

Dr Florian Jaeckle, also from the Department of Pathology, and a Research Fellow at Hughes Hall, Cambridge, said: “This is the first time AI has been shown to diagnose as accurately as an ...