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Old 12-11-2010, 08:04 AM
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Default While there is no specific test--

--for "gluten sensitivity" yet--I do tend to agree with darlindeb25 that one day the paradigm/interpretation will shift and people who have neurologic or other reaction to gluten without gastric evidence of it will be considered celiac, and then celiac will be recognized as a disease with many possible manifestations beyond villous atrophy--there is some evidence that those with extra-gastric symptoms may first show an abnormal anti-gliadin IgG test, in particular (this is considered the most sensitive, but least specific, of the gluten tests).

On the Gluten File, which can be easily googled (or bing-ed or whatever), one can see the work particularly of Dr. Hadjivassiliou discussing this:

http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/72/5/560.extract

I, myself, am waiting to see how the newest tests, the anti-deamidated tests, are going to work out in distinguishing this:

http://www.celiac.com/articles/22055...ase/Page1.html

http://www.bidmc.org/celiaccenter
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