Who is most likely to have celiac disease?

Celiac disease tends to be more common in people who have:A family member with celiac disease or dermatitis herpetiformis.Type 1 diabetes.Down syndrome or Turner syndrome.Autoimmune thyroid disease.Microscopic colitis (lymphocytic or collagenous colitis)Addisons disease.10 Aug 2021

Are most celiacs skinny?

Now, however, medical research has been showing that people with celiac disease are not always thin. For example, in a 2010 study published in the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, 15.2% of adults with celiac disease were overweight when they were diagnosed and 6.8% were obese.

Why is celiac so common in Ireland?

According to Dr. Sheila Crowe, a professor of gastroenterology (the study of the digestive tract and its disorders) at the University of Virginia, “Celiac disease [is] most common in the Irish population” due to being predisposed to specific genes involved in autoimmune diseases.