Celiac disease on the Rise Across America

Boston (DbTechNo) – A new study has found that cases of Celiac disease are on the rise across America.

This news comes following a study performed by researchers at the Mayo Clinic.

The study finds that the disease is now 4 times more common in the country than it was 50 years ago.

The disease is a digestive disorder and can be diagnosed in both children and adults.

The disease effects a person’s ability to digest gluten, resulting in an inflammatory reaction that effects the absorption of nutrients into the body.

Treating the disease is largely diet based, with affected people cutting out all sources of wheat and other grains containing gluten.

For their study the researchers analyzed blood samples from healthy male army recruits between 1948 and 1954.

They compared these samples with those of men living in this generation.

They found that the blood from the recent blood samples were 4.5 times more likely to contain traces of Celiac antibodies than the blood of the army recruits taken more than 50 years ago.

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