作者: Cornelius C. Cronin , Fergus Shanahan
关键词: Diarrhea 、 Environmental health 、 Ethnic group 、 Screening test 、 Disease 、 Dietary history 、 Gluten 、 Internal medicine 、 Gastroenterology 、 Malabsorption 、 Irish 、 Medicine
摘要: Celiac disease (gluten sensitive enteropathy) is a condition affecting the small bowel, characterized by permanent intolerance to dietary gluten, and giving rise varying degrees of malabsorption diarrhea. With advent screening tests, being increasingly diagnosed. more common in Irish those descent. Simoons (1978, 1981) hypothesized that present-day prevalence celiac across Europe related interaction between genetic gradients, largely determined advance agriculture, historical patterns cereal ingestion. This essay examines Simoons' hypothesis as it relates Ireland, reviews ethnic mix living on island Ireland aspects history, considers how these factors may have combined result high frequency disease.