sábado 6 de marzo de 2010

Gluten intolerance in Finland has doubled-Se duplica la intoleranci...

Gluten intolerance in Finland has doubled

The occurrence of gluten intolerance in the Finnish population has doubled in the past twenty years. In the early 1980s, about one per cent of
adults in Finland had gluten intolerance, but the figure has since gone
up to two per cent by the 2000s.

"We've already seen a similar trend emerge earlier on where allergies and certain autoimmune disorders are concerned. Screening has shown that
gluten intolerance occurs in 1.5 per cent of Finnish children and 2.7
per cent of the elderly. The higher figure for older people is
explained by the fact that the condition becomes more frequent with
age," says Professor Markku Mäki. Mäki has set up an internationally
acclaimed research team on gluten intolerance, developing screening
tests for gluten intolerance. Mäki is head of a research project in the
Academy of Finland's Research Programme on Nutrition, Food and Health
(ELVIRA).

According to Mäki, gluten intolerance may often be symptom-free, and people may be unaware that they have the condition if their symptom

More information:

Professor Markku Mäki, University of Tampere, tel. +358(0)3 3551 8400, markku.maki@uta.fi

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