Coeliac disease in old age

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Coeliac disease in old age: 'a catch in the rye'.


Coeliac disease has been viewed as a disease of children and young adults, presenting with weight loss, steatorrhoea, anaemia and evidence of folate, iron or vitamin D deficiency .
Early studies reported that only 4% of new diagnoses of coeliac disease were made in patients aged over 60 but the Coeliac Society estimates that 21% of new patient members now fall into this age group and a recent study reports that 34.1% of all new patients diagnosed with coeliac disease are in the seventh decade or above
Swinson et al. demonstrated a bimodal distribution for age at time of diagnosis for adult coeliac disease, with an initial peak in the fourth decade (predominantly women) and a later peak in the sixth and seventh decades (mostly men).

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