Is Early Celiac Diagnosis Cost Effective?
Celiac.com 07/12/2010 – Celiac disease was at one time considered a rare disease. However, celiac is now gaining notoriety as a common genetic autoimmune A condition where the body\’s immune system is unable to distinguish between foreign particles and the body\’s own cells and as a result attacks normal body tissue.’); return false”>autoimmune disease that affects approximately 1% of Western countries. As the celiac epidemic starts to rise, the costs of medical diagnosis and treatments for celiac disease are now being scrutinized. The study, approved by the Mayo Clinic and Olmsted Medical Center Institutional Review Boards, involved a group of doctors and researchers who compared population-based administrative data of celiac cases and matched controls from Olmsted County, Minnesota in an effort to evaluate: “direct medical costs 1 year pre- and post- celiac disease diagnosis for 133 index cases” and to compare 4-year cumulative direct medical costs incurred by 153 index cases against
