{"id":70,"date":"2006-11-06T20:17:26","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T19:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/06\/celiaccoeliac-disease-and-diabetes\/"},"modified":"2006-11-05T20:17:43","modified_gmt":"2006-11-05T19:17:43","slug":"celiaccoeliac-disease-and-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/celiaccoeliac-disease-and-diabetes\/","title":{"rendered":"Celiac\/Coeliac disease and diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been aware that there is a link &#8211; or at least an association &#8211; between coeliac disease and diabetes, and a study in Denmark recommends that all children with type 1 diabetes should be screened for coeliac disease.  (see Diabetes Care, November 2006, reported by Reuters).<\/p>\n<p>The doctors conducting the research in Denmark identified 269 patients under 16 with type 1 diabetes, and screened them for coeliac disease &#8211; finding that over 12% had both coeliac disease and diabetes.  This is significantly more than the 1% we are usually quoted by Coeliac UK.<\/p>\n<p>Happily, the identified children were put onto a gluten free diet, and after two years their symptoms resolved, their weight rose and height increased (though only in those under 14 &#8211; which goes to show that early diagnosis is important). <\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been aware that there is a link &#8211; or at least an association &#8211; between coeliac disease and diabetes, and a study in Denmark recommends that all children with type 1 diabetes should be screened for coeliac disease. (see Diabetes Care, November 2006, reported by Reuters). The doctors conducting the research in Denmark identified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,161],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-living-gluten-free","7":"category-stay-healthy","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}