Several medical studies have linked fatty liver disease with celiac disease.
Surprisingly, children with celiac had the highest risk of fatty liver disease.
Finally, in 1999, clinicians from Germany wrote about an underweight 31-year-old woman with fatty liver disease.
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In autoimmune hepatitis, your immune system attacks your liver.
A 2005 study from Italy looked at the rate of undiagnosed celiac disease in people with autoimmune hepatitis.
Because of these results, the authors recommended screening all autoimmune hepatitis patients for celiac disease.
The study, conducted in Finland, looked at four patients with untreated celiac disease and severe liver failure.
Three of the people were being considered for a liver transplant.
All four were able to reverse their liver disease when they began following a gluten-free diet.
The study also screened 185 liver transplant patients for celiac disease.
Eight of these patients (4.3%) ultimately were diagnosed with biopsy-proven celiac disease.
