If you're a healthcare professional involved in diagnosis and management of patients with coeliac disease (CD) this part of the website has been designed for you. It can be used to help you improve the care provided to your patients.
Research
- €9.5M in EU FP7 funding allocated to "Research and innovation for the diagnosis, monitoring and management of Coeliac Disease (CD-MEDICS)"
- Prevent Coeliac Disease: an EU FP6 funded project
- Review Article: Future research on coeliac disease – a position report from the European Union Multistakeholder Platform on CD (CDEUSSA)
- FSAI: Gluten Free Foods - The Coeliac condition and it's prevalence in the Irish population (2008).
- FSAI: Gluten Free Foods - Updated March 2010
- AOECS: Research Papers on CD from 1949 - Present
Conferences & Events
- International Conference on Double Balloon Endoscopy: Aug 27th - 28th 2010, Paris.
- AOECS 24th General Assembly: Sep 17th - 18th 2010, Valencia, Spain. Programme to be announced.
- International Gastrointestinal Pathology Symposium in association with the Irish Society of Surgical Pathology: Sept 23rd - 25th 2010, Killarney, Co. Kerry. Programme to be announced.
- The Irish Society for Gastroenterology National meeting, November 25th - 26th 2010. Trim, Co. Meath.
- Coeliac Society of Ireland's National Convention 2010
The power of a cereal grain
It is amazing to think that mere cereal proteins can reek such clinical havoc. People with Coeliac disease develop a gluten sensitive enteropathy of the small bowel (duodenum/jejunum) which causes malabsorption of macro and micro nutrients that can lead to the longer term clinical outcomes.
So what is gluten? Gluten is a catch all phrase for the range of cereal proteins that trigger the enteropathy. These include the wheat protein, gliadin, the rye protein, secalin, the barley protein, hordein and the oat protein, avenin.
New Food Labelling Legislation Published (2009)
New food labelling and composition rules aimed at helping people who are intolerant to gluten have been published - here we answer your questions about the new legislation
NICE Guideline on Coeliac Disease
Guideline on the recognition and assessment of coeliac disease in children and adults on 27 May in England and Wales.
