Celiac.com 10/28/2004 - The following study demonstrates a connection between the length of time a celiac is exposed to gluten and the prevalence of anti-islet cell antibodies. This study supports many others that have shown that celiac patients are at high risk of developing insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, which is a condition that has a long pre-diabetic period. It would be interesting to conduct a similar study on non-celiacs to determine if gluten has the same effect, which, if demonstrated, would mean that gluten has toxic, disease-causing properties in other people in addition to those with celiac disease.
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