Predefined Diets in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
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Department of Community Nursing, Preventive Medicine and Public Health and History of Science, University of Alicante, San Vicente del Raspeig, 03690 Alicante, Spain
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Department of Nursing, University of Alicante, San Vicente del Raspeig, 03690 Alicante, Spain
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Nutrients 2021, 13(1), 52; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13010052
Received: 28 November 2020
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Revised: 18 December 2020
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Accepted: 22 December 2020
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Published: 26 December 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nutrition Status and Health)
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic disease mediated by the immune system and characterized by the importance of diet in pathological development. This study aims to understand how the use of predefined diets can affect the adult population diagnosed with IBD. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis. From the different databases (MEDLINE, Scopus, Cochrane, LILACS, CINAHL, and WOS), we found 4195 registers. After a review process, only 31 research studies were selected for qualitative synthesis and 10 were selected for meta-analysis. The variables used were Crohn’s Disease Activity Index (CDAI) for patients with Crohn’s Disease (CD) and fecal calprotectin (FC), C-Reactive Protein (CRP), and albumin (ALB) for patients with IBD. Predefined diets have been shown to have partial efficacy for the treatment of IBD and are compatible with other medical treatments. CDAI improved but with reasonable doubts due to the high heterogeneity of the data, while no differences were observed for ALB, FC, and CRP. More studies that evaluate the influence of predefined diets on IBD patients are needed due to the great variability in diets and the tools used to measure their effects.
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Keywords:
inflammatory bowel diseases; nutrition therapy; systematic review; meta-analysis; Crohn’s disease
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Comeche, J.M.; Gutierrez-Hervás, A.; Tuells, J.; Altavilla, C.; Caballero, P. Predefined Diets in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Nutrients 2021, 13, 52. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13010052
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Comeche JM, Gutierrez-Hervás A, Tuells J, Altavilla C, Caballero P. Predefined Diets in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Nutrients. 2021; 13(1):52. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13010052
Chicago/Turabian StyleComeche, José M., Ana Gutierrez-Hervás, José Tuells, Cesare Altavilla, and Pablo Caballero. 2021. "Predefined Diets in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis" Nutrients 13, no. 1: 52. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13010052
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