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Recurrent diarrhoea and weight loss associated with cessation of smoking in undiagnosed coeliac disease
  1. O Jolobe1
  1. 1Department of Adult Medicine, Tameside General Hospital, Fountain St, Ashton under Lyne OL6 9RW, UK

https://doi.org/10.1136/gut.50.4.582

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    This report on recurrent diarrhoea and weight loss associated with cessation of smoking in a patient with undiagnosed coeliac disease (Gut 2001;49:588), highlighting as it does the importance of documentation of body weight regardless of symptomatology, resonates with the evolution of the weight chart and haematological profile in a patient of mine with an eventual diagnosis of coeliac disease who first presented at the age of 79 years (when he weighed 70 kg) with a …

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