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01-02-2014 | Letter
Response to ‘Remarkable prevalence of celiac disease in patients with irritable bowel syndrome plus fibromyalgia in comparison with those with isolated irritable bowel syndrome: a case-finding study’ – authors’ reply
Authors:
Luis Rodrigo, Ignacio Blanco, Julio Bobes, Frederick J de Serres
Published in:
Arthritis Research & Therapy
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Issue 1/2014
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Excerpt
We greatly appreciate Sherry’s comments [
1] on our recent article published in
Arthritis Research & Therapy[
2], and we agree with him that, although the majority of patients with celiac disease (CD) and fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) may improve with a gluten-free diet (GFD), this may not be a uniform phenomenon. However, we believe that his observations in children [
3] cannot be extrapolated to adults, such as those comprising our target population. …