Call for more physician awareness as prevalence of celiac disease leaps
Although known to the ancient Greeks, celiac disease was definitively demonstrated only in the late 1950s after development of the endoscope. In 1969, the new European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) codified the first diagnostic criteria for the disease. Fast-growing challengeThe prevalence of celiac disease has exploded in recent years, above all […]
