There is also a slight risk of a false positive test result, especially for people with associated autoimmune disorders like type 1 diabetes, autoimmune liver disease, Hashimotoâs thyroiditis, psoriatic or rheumatoid arthritis, and heart failure, who do not have celiac disease.
Autoimmune disorders are conditions in which a person's immune system attacks the body's own cells, causing tissue destruction. Autoimmunity is accepted as the cause of a wide range of disorders, and it is suspected to be responsible for many more.
an autoimmmune disease is defined as a disease caused by someones immune system kind of going into overdrive and attacking cells it would not otherwise attack (it only should attack germs and viruses and stuff that makes you sick). in the case of type 1 diabetes, the immune system has attacked cells in the pancreas that produce insulin.