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 ...

This is a little-known fact about Type 1 Diabetes: as may as 10 to 20 per cent of sufferers will also have celiac sprue. The rate of celiac in the rest of the population is a mere 1 per cent. Why would these two conditions travel together? What we know ...