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Celiac disease, a gluten-sensitive enteropathy, is treated with a gluten-free diet. Whether to include oats in the diet for patients with celiac disease has been debated at length for the past 30 years. It is therefore surprising that so few studies have assessed the effect of dietary oats on the small-intestinal mucosa. Studies have usually involved only small numbers of patients (primarily children) and have been open and uncontrolled. Often the effect of adding oats has been assessed only for short periods. In the 1950s, van de Kamer and his colleagues¹ found oats to be toxic, but others have not . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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