The Importance of a Disease Register for the Patients with Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity

Florina Maria Gabor-Harosa^1, , Gabriel Samasca², Ovidiu Petru Stan³ and Floarea Mocean¹

¹Community Medicine Department, Public Health Discipline, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

²Department of Immunology,”Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

³Department of Automation, Faculty of Automation and Computer Science, Technical University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Cite this paper:
Florina Maria Gabor-Harosa, Gabriel Samasca, Ovidiu Petru Stan and Floarea Mocean. The Importance of a Disease Register for the Patients with Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity. International Journal of Celiac Disease. 2015; 3(4):136-138. doi: 10.12691/ijcd-3-4-2

Abstract

A new entity was included in the gluten diseases: the non-celiac gluten sensitivity. But the non-celiac gluten sensitivity is not yet clearly defined and its diagnosis is difficult. These lead us to implement a national register for the patients with non-celiac gluten sensitivity.

Keywords:
non-celiac gluten sensitivity celiac disease disease register

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