You are here

Responses

Article menu

Download PDFPDF

Research
Association between coeliac disease and cardiovascular disease: prospective analysis of UK Biobank data
Compose a Response to This Article
Compose Response

More information about text formats

Plain text

  • No HTML tags allowed.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
Author Information
First or given name, e.g. 'Peter'.
Your last, or family, name, e.g. 'MacMoody'.
Your email address, e.g. higgs-boson@gmail.com
Your role and/or occupation, e.g. 'Orthopedic Surgeon'.
Your organization or institution (if applicable), e.g. 'Royal Free Hospital'.
Statement of Competing Interests

PLEASE NOTE:

  • A rapid response is a moderated but not peer reviewed online response to a published article in a BMJ journal; it will not receive a DOI and will not be indexed unless it is also republished as a Letter, Correspondence or as other content. Find out more about rapid responses.
  • We intend to post all responses which are approved by the Editor, within 14 days (BMJ Journals) or 24 hours (The BMJ), however timeframes cannot be guaranteed. Responses must comply with our requirements and should contribute substantially to the topic, but it is at our absolute discretion whether we publish a response, and we reserve the right to edit or remove responses before and after publication and also republish some or all in other BMJ publications, including third party local editions in other countries and languages
  • Our requirements are stated in our rapid response terms and conditions and must be read. These include ensuring that: i) you do not include any illustrative content including tables and graphs, ii) you do not include any information that includes specifics about any patients,iii) you do not include any original data, unless it has already been published in a peer reviewed journal and you have included a reference, iv) your response is lawful, not defamatory, original and accurate, v) you declare any competing interests, vi) you understand that your name and other personal details set out in our rapid response terms and conditions will be published with any responses we publish and vii) you understand that once a response is published, we may continue to publish your response and/or edit or remove it in the future.
  • By submitting this rapid response you are agreeing to our terms and conditions for rapid responses and understand that your personal data will be processed in accordance with those terms and our privacy notice.

Vertical Tabs

Other responses

Jump to comment:

  • Published on: 31 March 2023
    Associatoin between coeliac nad cardiovascular diseases ?
    • MJ Quinn, Visiting Fellow Shanghai JiaoTong University

    Dr Conroy and colleagues investigated 469,095 adults aged 40-69, to find 40687 incident events (9 per 1000 person years) of cardiovascular disease in 2083 coeliac sufferers giving a hazard ration of 1.27 (1.11- 1.45) (1). What are the mechanisms for these clinical associations ?

    The pathophysiological mechanism in DP Burkitt”s “high fibre” hypothesis to explain chronic diseases is autonomic injury caused by straining on the toilet (2, 3). Coordinated straining may injure branches of sympathetic segments T10-L2 with the potential to injure pelvic organs including kidneys and adrenals. These may extend to contiguous segments at T8-9r supplying small bowel (cf nulliparous endometriosis, inflammatory bowel disease and hypertension). In DP Barkers “fetal origins of adult diseases” hypothesis the pathophysiological mechanism is an in utero injury to autonomic vasomotor nerves in small babies caused by involuntary “fetal hypertension” (4, 5). Kidneys and pancreas seem to bear the brunt of this assault that may result in type 1 diabetes mellitus and hypertension in later life.

    On this simple analysis there are, therefore, potential primary neurological mechanisms to account for both cardiovascular and autoimmune diseases within these data-driven hypotheses for chronic diseases. Are autoantibodies secondary consequences of primary denervatory injuries in these chronic “autoimmune” conditions ?. If the BioBank held details of birthweights or bowel habits (...

    Show More
    Conflict of Interest:
    None declared.