AHRQ - Practice Guidelines for Celiac Disease Screening

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AHRQ Releases Practice Guidelines for Celiac Disease Screening
American Family Physician - May 2005

http://www.aafp.org/afp/20050501/practice.html

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has issued a systematic review of the evidence regarding screening patients for celiac disease, a small-bowel malabsorption disorder that results in mucosal inflammation, villous atrophy, and crypt hyperplasia, which occur on exposure to gluten, and clinical and histologic improvement when gluten is withdrawn from the diet.

Full Report: http://www.ahrq.gov/downloads/pub/evidence/pdf/celiac/celiac.pdf

The full report is quite lengthy (158 pages - that does not include references ) and VERY detailed, but has some interesting stuff in it.
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