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Because of a shortage of food options during the COVID-19 crisis, many patients living with celiac disease are facing a struggle to maintain a gluten-free diet. But for tens of thousands of celiac patients worldwide, it will not be the only, nor the most difficult struggle brought on by the pandemic.

People with celiac disease have a small but significantly increased mortality rate. The finding comes from the largest study of its kind, which used long-term health records of celiac patients in Sweden between 1969 and 2017.

Data from the Nexvax2 study shows celiac patients exposed to gluten react within two hours and experience nausea and vomiting, not the classic lower digestive symptoms commonly associated with celiac disease.