October 19, 2014- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD
Did you know that one out of three Americans think that they are “gluten intolerant”. Of those 100 Million people, only 13 Million really have a medical problem caused by gluten.
Alessio Fasano, MD, director of the Center for Celiac Research and Treatment at MassGeneral Hospital for Children, is the man who started all of the gluten hype back in 2003 with a paper in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Hoping to reduce some of the current “gluten hysteria,” he has written a book explaining what gluten is, who can and can’t eat it, and why. We interviewed him.
Book reviews, Diabetes, Gastroenterology/Hepatology, Harvard affiliates, Internal medicine, Internal medicine/microbiology immunology, NEJM, Nutrition, Pediatrics, Policy | apples49 | 
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October 19, 2014- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD
Alessio Fasano, MD of Harvard discusses his 10-year-long study in children testing whether the delayed introduction of gluten into the diet reduced the eventual incidence of celiac disease. Dr. Fasano is most responsible for raising awareness of gluten intolerance after his 2003 NEJM and Archives of Internal Medicine papers were published.
Norton Hadler, MD, discusses the statistical ploy of using relative risk numbers, such as “A 30% reduction in….” rather than the more modest, clinically insignificant, absolute values.
