Article in Reuters discussed how even heavy kids can have celiac disease too:
Overweight children are just as likely as thin children to have celiac disease, a new study confirms.
It’s a common misconception – even among many doctors – that celiac disease is limited to people who are underweight.
“Being overweight certainly does not exclude the diagnosis, as this paper shows,” said Dr. Peter Green, director of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City, who was not involved in the new study.
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