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Lower economic status and inferior hygienic environment may protect against celiac disease.
Annals of medicine - 1 Jan 2008
Kondrashova Anita, Mustalahti Kirsi, Kaukinen Katri, Viskari Hanna, Volodicheva Vera, Haapala Anna-Maija, Ilonen Jorma, Knip Mikael, Mäki Markku, Hyöty Heikki
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The populations in adjacent Russian Karelia and Finland are equally exposed to grain products and share partly the same ancestry, but live in completely different socioeconomic environments. AIM: This creates an ideal epidemiological setting to study gene-environmental interactions in pathogenesis of celiac disease. METHODS: The prevalence of celiac disease and predisposing human leukocyte antigen...
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