Nutrition and Eating Disorders in Alimentary Tract Diseases: Mechanisms, Challenges, and Open Questions
A Special Issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643) belonging to the section "Clinical Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2027 | Viewed by 143
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Interests: gastroenterology; alcoholic liver disease; liver cirrhosis and inflammatory bowel diseases
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Dear Colleagues,
The alimentary tract is the hub of reciprocal relationships, where diseases of the gut can provoke food restriction, fear of eating and maladaptive dietary patterns. However, eating disorders themselves also leave a measurable mark on oesophageal, gastric, intestinal and hepatic function. This overlap is common, frequently missed in routine gastroenterological practice and clinically consequential for nutritional status and quality of life. Several developments make a focused appraisal timely. Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder is increasingly recognized in patients seen for dysphagia, functional dyspepsia, gastroparesis and disorders of gut–brain interaction, where symptom-driven avoidance can be mistaken for, or coexist with, organic disease. Conditions such as coeliac disease, inflammatory bowel disease and eosinophilic oesophagitis impose dietary constraints that may evolve into clinically significant disordered eating or orthorexia. At the same time, classical eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder generate a spectrum of gastrointestinal complications and nutritional deficits that gastroenterologists are well placed to detect but are not always equipped to manage. Important gaps remain in screening, diagnosis and care. Validated tools for identifying disordered eating in gastrointestinal populations are limited, the boundary between adaptive dietary management and pathological restriction is poorly defined and evidence on nutritional rehabilitation, refeeding safety and multidisciplinary pathways is fragmented across specialties. This Special Issue invites original research and reviews with clinically oriented perspectives addressing the intersection of eating disorders and alimentary tract diseases, with particular attention to nutritional assessment, mechanisms and management. Contributions that bridge gastroenterology, clinical nutrition and psychiatry are especially welcome.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder in gastroenterological populations
- Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder with gastrointestinal comorbidity
- Disorders of gut–brain interaction and their overlap with disordered eating
- Disordered eating and orthorexia in coeliac disease and other gluten-related disorders
- Inflammatory bowel disease and maladaptive dietary patterns
- Food avoidance in eosinophilic oesophagitis and food-related allergic disease
- Restrictive eating in gastroparesis, functional dyspepsia and motility disorders
- Eating pathology before and after bariatric and metabolic surgery
- Gastrointestinal and hepatic complications of eating disorders
- Refeeding syndrome, micronutrient deficiency and nutritional rehabilitation
- The gut microbiota in eating disorders and its therapeutic implications
- Screening instruments and diagnostic strategies for the gastroenterology setting
- Multidisciplinary and nutritional management models
We look forward to your contribution.
Prof. Dr. Beata Kasztelan-Szczerbińska
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- alimentary tract
- eating disorders
- anorexia nervosa
- bulimia nervosa
- binge-eating disorder
- psychiatry
- gastroenterology
- nutrition
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