Adherence to Dietary Recommendations, Nutrient Intake Adequacy and Diet Quality among Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Patients: Results from the GreeCF Study

Poulimeneas, Dimitrios; Grammatikopoulou, Maria G.; Devetzi, Panagiota; Petrocheilou, Argyri; Kaditis, Athanasios G.; Papamitsou, Theodora; Doudounakis, Stavros E.; Vassilakou, Tonia

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Adherence to Dietary Recommendations, Nutrient Intake Adequacy and Diet Quality among Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Patients: Results from the GreeCF Study

Dimitrios Poulimeneas

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Maria G. Grammatikopoulou

Panagiota Devetzi

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Argyri Petrocheilou

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Athanasios G. Kaditis

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Theodora Papamitsou

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Stavros E. Doudounakis

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Tonia Vassilakou

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Department of Public Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of West Attica, 196, Alexandras Avenue, GR-11521 Athens, Greece

Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University, E. Venizelou 70, GR-17671 Athens, Greece

Department of Nutritional Sciences & Dietetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, International Hellenic University, Alexander Campus, GR-57001 Thessaloniki, Greece

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Faculty of Biotechnology, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Rua de Diogo Botelho, 1327, 4169-005 Porto, Portugal

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Cystic Fibrosis Department, Agia Sophia Children’s Hospital, Thivon 1, GR-11527 Athens, Greece

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Division of Pediatric Pulmonology and Sleep Disorders Laboratory, First Department of Pediatrics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine and Aghia Sophia Children’s Hospital, Thivon 1, GR-11527 Athens, Greece

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Laboratory of Histology and Embryology, Medical School, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University Campus, GR-54124 Thessaloniki, Greece

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Nutrients 2020, 12(10), 3126; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12103126

Received: 20 September 2020 / Revised: 4 October 2020 / Accepted: 9 October 2020 / Published: 13 October 2020

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Contemporary Issues in Nutrition Research)

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Nutrition is an important component of cystic fibrosis (CF) therapy, with a high-fat diet being the cornerstone of treatment. However, adherence to the dietary recommendations for CF appears suboptimal and burdensome for most children and adolescents with CF, leading to malnutrition, inadequate growth, compromised lung function and increased risk for respiratory infections. A cross-sectional approach was deployed to examine the degree of adherence to the nutrition recommendations and diet quality among children with CF. A total of 76 children were recruited from Aghia Sophia’s Children Hospital, in Athens, Greece. In their majority, participants attained their ideal body weight, met the recommendations for energy and fat intake, exceeding the goal for saturated fatty acids consumption. Carbohydrate and fiber intake were suboptimal and most participants exhibited low or mediocre adherence to the Mediterranean diet prototype. It appears that despite the optimal adherence to the energy and fat recommendations, there is still room for improvement concerning diet quality and fiber intake. View Full-Text

Keywords: Mediterranean diet; dietary recommendations; nutrition; medical nutrition therapy; growth; malnutrition; pediatric patients; nutritional assessment; pulmonological disease; nutritional status; lung disease

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Poulimeneas, D.; Grammatikopoulou, M.G.; Devetzi, P.; Petrocheilou, A.; Kaditis, A.G.; Papamitsou, T.; Doudounakis, S.E.; Vassilakou, T. Adherence to Dietary Recommendations, Nutrient Intake Adequacy and Diet Quality among Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Patients: Results from the GreeCF Study. Nutrients 2020, 12, 3126. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12103126

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Poulimeneas D, Grammatikopoulou MG, Devetzi P, Petrocheilou A, Kaditis AG, Papamitsou T, Doudounakis SE, Vassilakou T. Adherence to Dietary Recommendations, Nutrient Intake Adequacy and Diet Quality among Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Patients: Results from the GreeCF Study. Nutrients. 2020; 12(10):3126. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12103126

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Poulimeneas, Dimitrios, Maria G. Grammatikopoulou, Panagiota Devetzi, Argyri Petrocheilou, Athanasios G. Kaditis, Theodora Papamitsou, Stavros E. Doudounakis, and Tonia Vassilakou. 2020. "Adherence to Dietary Recommendations, Nutrient Intake Adequacy and Diet Quality among Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Patients: Results from the GreeCF Study" Nutrients 12, no. 10: 3126. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12103126

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