A recent study has shed some light into celiac disease and type 1 diabetes, and it’s not so good.
Unfortunately, researchers have found that people with celiac disease (CD) and type 1 diabetes (T1D) are at risk of developing autoimmune thyroid disease (ATD). An autoimmune disease is one caused by the body itself when the body’s immune system attacks healthy cells of the body.
“An autoimmune disease is caused when the body attacks itself”
In this study, a total of 5,531 patients were studied, 4,584 with TD1 (control) and 947 with type 1 diabetes and CD. During a follow up, 90 patients for the TD1+CD group developed ATD. What they also found is that CD for 10 years or more had a higher risk of developing ATD.
