What is Celiac disease? Celiac disease is caused when a person’s immune system reacts abnormally to a protein called gluten.

IT is now generally accepted that celiac disease in children and idiopathic steatorrhea (nontropical sprue) in adults are phases of the same disease. 1 For convenience we refer to this entity as ...

Celiac disease is also known as celiac sprue, nontropical sprue, gluten-sensitive enteropathy and gluten-induced interopathy. The classic definition is that gluten triggers the immune system ...

Even though there’s a lot more awareness around celiac disease these days (and a wider variety of tasty gluten-free foods available), the chronic autoimmune disorder is still not fully ...