Yes, so statistically less significant than the other way around, but significant nonetheless.RRM wrote:Do you mean that 20% of people with Celiac have osteoporosis,
The 97% percent stat appears on various sites, and I agree that it is a suspiciously precise number for an undiagnosed anything. Perhaps it a a politically motivated number generated by the various celiac organizations in an effort to lobby for more government funding. I dunno. As stated the National Institute of Health (American) is one source of the 97% stat. From: http://canweeatthat.typepad.com/blog/20 ... -test.html
"Celiac disease impacts one out of every 133 people in the United States," said Senator Huff. "It's estimated that 97% of cases go undiagnosed and the average delay in diagnosis is nine years. This is a clear indication that we must do what we can to raise awareness."
I was merely speculating on a hypothesis.RRM wrote:The sentence i was referring to is about osteoporosis and wheat consumption.
"might in fact be due to" does not suggest correlation, but causation.
To bring the discussion to a different level I found this at http://alwayswellwithin.com/2011/04/12/ ... it-be-you/:
“EnteroLab is a registered and fully accredited clinical laboratory specializing in the analysis of intestinal specimens for food sensitivities (reactions by the immune system to common proteins in the diet) that cause a variety of symptoms and diseases. One particular area of our focus relates to intestinal conditions caused by immune reactivity to a protein called gluten which is found in wheat, barley, rye, and oats. Recent research in our laboratory indicates that immune sensitivity to gluten is exceedingly common, present in 30-40% of all Americans. Although these reactions can cause malnutrition, growth failure in children, osteoporosis, many autoimmune diseases (including colitis, diabetes, arthritis, and many others), most of the affected individuals are unaware they have it because there have been no sensitive tests capable of diagnosis.”
I interpret the self-underlined passage to be referring to the tests done by the greater medical community, not those of private labs. I have read that negative blood tests for celiac are more
I am suspicious of this statistic as the lab in question would be a for-profit organization, but seeing as grain consumption is a relatively new human behaviour (likely began in earnest around 9300 B.C.E.) I wouldn't be surprised if the phenomenon is but another example of the human species' cultural evolution outpacing its biological evolution. Again, this 30-40% stat is tossed around by many sites and may be profit-motivated or the product of mass-hysteria, but gluten is a storage protein, so...
The so-called gold-standard blood tests for celiac disease are largely ineffective, with biopsy of the small intestine/DNA testing being the most accurate method of CD diagnosis. These testing methods are largely ignored, however, especially when standard blood tests come back negative.
Again, secondary causes of celiac include dairy consumption as the n-terminal of the casein protein is identical to that of gliadin. Re: dairy, osteoporosis, and excessive calcium in the diet: only 30% of the calcium in processed dairy products (i.e. any dairy products as they are all processed by pasteurization in North America) is available for absorption, not exactly a flood of calcium that the body cannot adjust for.
