Coeliac disease: where are we in 2014?

Published recently in Australian Family Physician by Kristin Kenrick and Andrew S Day, Coeliac disease: where are we in 2014? seeks to summarise the current knowledge and management of this autoimmune disease which affects at least one in a hundred Australians.

Coeliac disease is characterised by chronic inflammation of the small-intestinal mucosa and triggered by eating gluten. Many people with the disease remain undiagnosed because of the varied manifestations of symptoms it can produce.   The article presents up-to-date information on CD as we now understand it, with recommendations on whom to test and how to test for it, and how to manage patients once they are diagnosed.

Australian Family Physician Volume 43, No.10, October 2014 Pages 674-678.