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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Gluten-free diet"”.
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Nutrient intakes of healthy adults on a gluten-free diet
<p>Gluten-free diets have gained popularity in recent years among healthy individuals. However, gluten-free foods are typically lower in essential nutrients. It was hypothesized that the average intakes of fiber and the selected B vitamins and minerals would be lower in the gluten-free group than …
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Gluten-free diet adherence in adult coeliac disease: Exploring multiple perspectives
… triggered by an inappropriate immune response to dietary gluten. This condition affects around 1% of the population and can lead to serious health complications, including nutrient deficiencies, infertility, osteoporosis and cancer. Symptoms, such as diarrhoea, pain, fatigue and bloating, can be …
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Wheat-free for the wrong reasons? College students' attitudes and information sources pertaining to the gluten-free diet
The gluten-free diet has grown popular over the past years, with more people on the diet than simply celiac patients. Health professionals were concerned by the high number of people on the diet for reasons other than celiac disease because of dietary deficiencies that stem from eating gluten-free. …
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What is the Relationship Between Quality of Life and Coping Strategies of Adults with Celiac Disease Adhering to a Gluten Free Diet?
… be effectively managed by strict adherence to a gluten free diet. However, dietary management can be quite challenging. </p><p> The present descriptive, correlational research study included 156 adults self-reporting a diagnosis of celiac disease. The purpose of this study was to examine factors …
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Searching for Celiac Disease Screening-detected celiac disease in an HLA-genotyped birth cohort
… at time of diagnosis and after treatment with a gluten-free diet and compared with matched controls. At nine years of age, children with screening-detected celiac disease were examined by dual X-ray absorptiometry for analysis of BMD and for serum 25(OH) vitamin D3 and plasma parathyroid hormone …
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A Life without Gluten: Dietary Adherence, Physical Activity and Motives
… study was to look at individuals living on a gluten-free diet (GFD), their dietary adherence, PA levels and the reasons why they engage in these lifestyle behaviours consistent with Organismic Integration Theory (Deci & Ryan, 2002). Participants (N = 202; Mage = 42.35 years, SDage = 12.43 …
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The isolation and characterisation of Transglutaminase 2 inhibitors from natural sources
… the only treatment for coeliac disease is a gluten free diet. The TG2 inhibitors are the potential therapeutic agents against the coeliac disease however the current chemically synthesised TG2 inhibitors have toxicity problems. Moreover, the progress in the treatment of coeliac disease is …
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Evaluating the Economics of Gluten-Free Households
<p>Over the past two decades, the diagnoses of gluten allergies and celiac disease has increased significantly. Although there has been no development of a cure for either ailment, these conditions can be managed by the elimination of glutenous foods from a person’s diet. In previous studies, the …
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Studies on the pathogenesis of coeliac disease
… Leucocyte Migration Inhibition (LMI) test with gluten in adult coeliac disease are shown to be affected by the histocompatibility antigen HLA-B8. Normal subjects with B8 show greater immunity than those lacking B8 and give similar results to untreated coeliacs. B8 and non-B8 coeliacs give …
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Personalised nutritional health assistant
… is a chronic autoimmune disorder triggered by gluten consumption, a protein found in wheat, barley, and rye [1]. It affects 1 in 100 people worldwide, with the only treatment available to date being the recommendation to follow a gluten-free diet [2]. This work researched and subsequently …
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Forever gluten-free: exploring the psychosocial impact of living with coeliac disease
… is an autoimmune disease in which the enzyme gluten causes inflammation and damage to the small intestine. Untreated the condition may predispose symptomatic individuals to serious diseases such as cancer, type I diabetes, osteoporosis, gynaecological problems in women, peripheral and central …
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A Deep Learning Approach to Automated Coeliac Disease Diagnosis
… disorder triggered by the consumption of gluten. Manifestations are variable and non-specific, ranging from no symptoms, through fatigue, diarrhoea, and vomiting, and, in rare cases, lymphoma and duodenal cancer. The treatment consists of a lifelong gluten-free diet, making early and …
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THE ROLE OF MOLECULAR SIGNATURES IN COMPLICATED CELIAC DISEASE
… and villous atrophy despite adherence to a gluten-free diet (GFD). Based on their molecular signatures, aberrant intraepithelial lymphocytes (aIELs) and monoclonal TCRγ rearrangement, RCD patients are differentiated into RCD type 1 (RCD1) and RCD type 2 (RCD2). This distinction is …
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Butyrophilin family genes as putative coeliac disease risk loci
… (1). CeD is triggered by the consumption of gluten, the collective name of a group of proteins present in wheat, rye, and barley (1, 2). The prevalence of CeD in the United Kingdom (UK) is around 1% and the number of new CeD diagnoses is rising each year (3, 4). Active CeD, when individuals …
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Optimization of Clinical Approach and Dietotherapy in Gluten Enteropathy /// Оптимизиране на клиничния подход и диетолечението при глутенова ентеропатия
Глутеновата ентеропатия е едно от най-разпространените автоимунни стомашно чревни разстройства. Заболяването е хронична, автоимунна форма на ентеропатия – с прицелен орган тънкото черво, в генетично предразположени деца и възрастни, малко по-често при жени отколкото при мъже и води до поява на …
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Screening Detected Celiac Disease in Children
… in infant feeding practices, were the amount of gluten and age at introduction was changed. However, it was not clear if the increase in clinically detected children was due to more CD cases being detected due to symptoms and thus previously undiagnosed, or if it was a true change in CD …
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Avaliação da Adequação Dietética e Nutricional de Adultos com Doença Celíaca
… O único tratamento instituído para a DC é uma dieta livre de glúten (DLG) por toda a vida. A exclusão do glúten contribui para recuperar a mucosa danificada e com isso evitar deficiências nutricionais, e ainda proteger de várias complicações da doença. Entretanto, a DLG é considerada bastante …