celiac disease

It was always known that celiac disease is caused by hyperactivity of the immune system, but for the first time ever researchers were able to envisage the interaction between T lymphocytes and gluten, the protein that triggers the disease. Celiac disease can affect both young children and adults. The disease affects approximately 1 in 300 […]

Link between long-term celiac disease and diabetic retinopathy discovered. A team of six researchers from Sweden and the UK recently investigated the link between celiac disease and diabetic retinopathy (DRP) in patients with T1D. The researchers carried out a population-based cohort study, identifying 41,566 patients who were diagnosed with diabetes between 1964 and 2009 while under […]