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Nstvns03 Newbie
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I had celiac testing done and the only think in that test that was high was the immunoglobulin A Qn results was off the chart high at 419. Does this confirm celiac if everything else but that test was normal? 

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Welcome to the forum, @Nstvns03!

Immunoglobulin A Qn is not a test for celiac disease per se. It's what we commonly call "total IGA" and it is a test used to determine if there is IGA deficiency. If there is IGA deficiency, the individual IGA tests done to look for celiac disease are going to be artificially low and this can produce false negatives. Obviously, you are not IGA deficient.

But the question needs to be asked, had you already been practicing a reduced gluten diet when the blood draw was done for these tests?

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