Celiac Disease (CD) can be hard to diagnose. This is because it presents itself in many different ways that were not known earlier. These are now being recognised. The earlier text-book description of CD was of a childhood diarrhoeal disease associated with malnutrition and growth failure. This is no longer the case. The new truth is that celiac patients can stay asymptomatic or silent for years and therefore, may be diagnosed as late as even 80-90 years of age.
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