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Sunday, May 19, 2013 African American Health Problems with
Celiac Disease for Blacks? Hello. Through a small bowel biopsy,
I was just diagnosed to have Celiac Disease. As an African
American women, are there more problems that I should be on the
look out for? I understand that my diet has to change to a
gluten free diet, but that`s the extent of my knowledge. There
is not anything that you have to do based on your race. Celiac
Disease is an autoimmune disease (when the body's defense system
attacks or reacts to itself as if it were foreign) in which the
lining of the small intesting becomes inflamed and damaged due
to a reaction to gluten and proteins found in wheat, barely, rye
and some oats. We are not certain as to what causes celiac to
occur. There are some tests that the doctors can do to diagnose
it such as you had