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Comorbidities

As an autoimmune disorder celiac disease is connected with other diseases where the immune system is directed against the body's own tissue. The most common underlying condition of celiac disease is diabetes mellitus type 1, when the antibodies react against the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas.

About five to ten percent of all celiacs are ill and have type 1 diabetes and vice versa. Even for an inflammatory disease of the thyroid a mutually clustering of cases was observed together with the celiac disease. Adult celiacs can suffer from a vesicular rash with severe itching. Only about a tenth of them have symptoms from the gastro-intestinal tract.

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