Gluten-sensitive enteropathy is also known as celiac disease or celiac sprue. This autoimmune condition is known to affect 1 in 133 US residents.

If you have celiac disease yourself, your offspring have a 5 to 15 per cent chance of having it themselves. It’s also true that your genetic siblings have the same 5 to 15 per cent chance of this autoimmune condition.

If you are an identical twin, and your twin has celiac disease, your chance of having it climb to 70 per cent.

Here’s the most astonishing part of gluten-sensitive enteropathy: it is the most common genetic autoimmune disease in the world.

You have a better chance of having celiac disease than you do lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy or Parkinson’s disease – and yet, it often goes undiagnosed.

Source: PressDemocrat