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==General== | ==General== | ||
*Considered an autoimmune disease. | *Considered an autoimmune disease. | ||
*The typical individual with celiac disease has a normal weight or is underweight. | |||
**[[Obese]] and overweight individuals can have celiac disease.<ref name=pmid26892766>{{Cite journal | last1 = Singh | first1 = I. | last2 = Agnihotri | first2 = A. | last3 = Sharma | first3 = A. | last4 = Verma | first4 = AK. | last5 = Das | first5 = P. | last6 = Thakur | first6 = B. | last7 = Sreenivas | first7 = V. | last8 = Gupta | first8 = SD. | last9 = Ahuja | first9 = V. | title = Patients with celiac disease may have normal weight or may even be overweight. | journal = Indian J Gastroenterol | volume = | issue = | pages = | month = Feb | year = 2016 | doi = 10.1007/s12664-016-0620-9 | PMID = 26892766 }}</ref> | |||
===Epidemiology=== | ===Epidemiology=== | ||