Re: GF Diet and blood serum levels in the first year after diagnosis

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I would love to read the study. Thanks for you synopsis and story. ValenzaFrom: tunibell <jessika.welcome@...> Sent: Thu, November 26, 2009 9:00:11 AMSubject: [ ] GF Diet and blood serum levels in the first year after diagnosis

I recently read a very good article in the journal "Digestive and Liver Disease" titled "Dynamics of celiac disease - speci & #64257; c serology after initiation of a gluten-free diet and use in the assessment of compliance with treatment." It followed 82 subjects with diagnosed celiac disease and measured their blood serum levels for eight different assays at baseline and every three months for a year. I

I personally found it fascinating that at one year post-diagnosis, 61% of the subjects still had positive TTG IGA levels. My TTG IGA was still weakly positive at 6 months post-GF, and my GI felt that this suggested I was still ingesting gluten (I'm not).

I'd be happy to post a copy to the files if people are interested in reading the study.

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I would like to read it too. ThanksFrom: tunibell <jessika.welcome@...> Sent: Thu, November 26, 2009 9:00:11 AMSubject: [ ] GF Diet and blood serum levels in the first year after diagnosis

I recently read a very good article in the journal "Digestive and Liver Disease" titled "Dynamics of celiac disease - speci & #64257; c serology after initiation of a gluten-free diet and use in the assessment of compliance with treatment." It followed 82 subjects with diagnosed celiac disease and measured their blood serum levels for eight different assays at baseline and every three months for a year. I

I personally found it fascinating that at one year post-diagnosis, 61% of the subjects still had positive TTG IGA levels. My TTG IGA was still weakly positive at 6 months post-GF, and my GI felt that this suggested I was still ingesting gluten (I'm not).

I'd be happy to post a copy to the files if people are interested in reading the study.

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The reaction from your GI doesn't surprise me. I mean where's the common sense here?

My daughter's GI has told us that he expects it will take years before her gut is healed enough to reduce sensitivity. Celiac is about inflammation. Just because one is not ingesting gluten doesn't mean the inflammation goes away right away. It does not. MB----- "tunibell" <jessika.welcome@...> wrote: >

> > > I recently read a very good article in the journal "Digestive and Liver Disease" titled "Dynamics of celiac disease - speci & #64257;c serology after initiation of a gluten-free diet and use in the assessment of compliance with treatment." It followed 82 subjects with diagnosed celiac disease and measured their blood serum levels for eight different assays at baseline and every three months for a year. I> I personally found it fascinating that at one year post-diagnosis, 61% of the subjects still had positive TTG IGA levels. My TTG IGA was still weakly positive at 6 months post-GF, and my GI felt that this suggested I was still ingesting gluten (I'm not). > I'd be happy to post a copy to the files if people are interested in reading the study.>

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