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Morbidity and mortality in coeliac disease
2018-01-01
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Celiac disease is a small intestinal immune-mediated enteropathy precipitated by exposure to gluten, a protein complex in the cereals wheat, barley and rye, in genetically susceptible people. Once considered an uncommon disorder restricted to children of European descent, it is now known to be one of the most common chronic diseases encountered in the Western world, with a serological prevalence of 1% that can be...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 8f9f1944-9d77-5fd8-ab40-ec3f23d6fd37
- DOI
- 10.48773/93264