Prevalence of celiac disease in primary care: the need for its own code

• Main Authors: Ricardo Fueyo-Díaz (Author), Rosa Magallón-Botaya (Author), Barbara Masluk (Author), Guillermo Palacios-Navarro (Author), Angela Asensio-Martínez (Author), Santiago Gascón-Santos (Author), Bárbara Olivan-Blázquez (Author), Juan José Sebastián-Domingo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Celiac disease (CD) is an autoimmune chronic enteropathy of the small intestine caused by exposure to gluten in genetically predisposed individuals. CD is not easy to diagnose due to its unspecific symptomatology, especially in adults, a diagnosed/undiagnosed ratio of 1:7 is esti...