Showing posts with label celiac disease. Show all posts
Showing posts with label celiac disease. Show all posts

Friday, February 25, 2011

Pregnancy at risk because of untreated celiac disease

Increasingly there is talk of celiac disease, an 'intolerance to gluten that over time leads to a chronic inflammation of the intestine with devastating consequences for the mucosa. Identified relatively recently in celiac disease has now been studied in relation to fertility, to see if there is a real correspondence between the increase in cases of pregnancies at risk and this growing intolerance.