Screening/confirming: Any primary care physician can start the screening for CD. If the screening blood tests are positive a referral to a gastroenterologist would then be needed for the confirmatory studies. It is important that at least a minimal level of gluten be consumed in the weeks before testing for it to be accurate (slice of wheat bread/d X 3 wks)
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