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Hyperglycemia in celiac disease: not always pretype 1 diabetes?
Pediatric diabetes - 28 Jul 2008
Ingegnosi Carmela, Caruso-Nicoletti Manuela, D'Amato Elena, d'Annunzio Giuseppe, Lorini Renata
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Celiac disease (CD) is a T-cell-mediated enteropathy, triggered in genetically susceptible individuals by the ingestion of wheat gluten or related rye and barley proteins, whose clinical picture disease is considerably heterologous. Patients with CD are at high risk of autoimmune disorders; similarly, CD is frequent in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), a disorder characterized by the immune-mediated...
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