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Increasing prevalence and high incidence of celiac disease in elderly people: A population-based study

BACKGROUND: Celiac disease may emerge at any age, but little is known of its appearance in elderly people. We evaluated the prevalence of the condition in individuals over 55 years of age, and determined the incidence of biopsy-proven celiac disease (CDb) and celiac disease including seropositive su...

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Autores principales: Vilppula, Anitta, Kaukinen, Katri, Luostarinen, Liisa, Krekelä, Ilkka, Patrikainen, Heikki, Valve, Raisa, Mäki, Markku, Collin, Pekka
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2711095/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19558729
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-230X-9-49