HOW DO PEOPLE SHOW SYMPTOMS OF CELIAC DISEASE?
There are two popular techniques to describe how people can show symptoms. One is an illustration of an iceberg and the other involves a classification chart for grouping patients. Both are shown below. The iceberg diagram below depicts the relationship of villous atrophy to patient symptoms in people who are producing antibodies. In this we can see how few people show symptoms despite damage that can be significant. Figure 1.5 Relationship between intestinal damage and symptoms in people with antibody production. There is an existing classification of patients with commonly accepted features.1 This classification is a uniform method of depicting the relationship between symptoms and blood/ biopsy findings in patients. Itwas developed to group how people can present (appear to their doctor). The groups are: 1) Classical Celiac Disease, 2) Celiac Disease with Atypical Symptoms , 3) Silent Celiac Disease, and 4) Latent Celiac Disease. • Classical Celiac Disease is dominated by symptoms a
