A recent study published in the journal Pediatrics, finds that current guidelines for identifying undiagnosed cases of celiac disease are inadequate.
Current guidelines for the detection of wide-spread undiagnosed celiac disease rely on questionnaire data on symptoms. The researchers set out to find the frequency of symptoms in CD cases and non-CD children to evaluate the efficacy of the questionnaire-based screening method.
• The researchers found that symptoms were as common among screening-detected cases as among non-CD cases.
• 38 percent of the study's cases would have been identified through the questionnaire method at the cost of analyzing blood samples of 37 percent of the total study population.
• The researchers concluded that the current guidelines fail to identify the majority of previously undiagnosed CD cases.
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Current guidelines for the detection of wide-spread undiagnosed celiac disease rely on questionnaire data on symptoms. The researchers set out to find the frequency of symptoms in CD cases and non-CD children to evaluate the efficacy of the questionnaire-based screening method.
• The researchers found that symptoms were as common among screening-detected cases as among non-CD cases.
• 38 percent of the study's cases would have been identified through the questionnaire method at the cost of analyzing blood samples of 37 percent of the total study population.
• The researchers concluded that the current guidelines fail to identify the majority of previously undiagnosed CD cases.
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