... (Koopman, Baars & Mearin, 2003). In particular, childhood CD can affect how and what the whole family eat and this can make the family more vulnerable to life events because managing CD on a daily ... follow a GFD (Mihailidi, Paspalaki, Katakis, & Evangeliou, 2003). The risk of cancer decreases to the same as a person without CD after a GFD has been followed for 3 to 5 years (Coeliac UK, ... (whether undiagnosed or failing to adhere to treatment) is failure to thrive, malabsorption and persistent diarrhoea. Other symptoms include depression, abdominal pain, anaemia, arthritis, delayed...