When left untreated, coeliac disease can lead to malnutrition, osteoporosis, infertility and cancer.

A person can be asymptomatic, and still these conditions can be silently developing as a result of the autoimmune disorder.

It raises an important question – should we be screening people for coeliac disease, regardless of symptoms?

Guest/s

• Associate Professor Jason Tye-Din, gastroenterologist and head of the coeliac lab at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

References

• Self Assessment Tool - Coeliac Australia
• Policies Around the World - Celiac Disease Foundation
• Prevalence and detection rate of celiac disease in Italy: Results of a SIGENP multicenter screening in school-age children