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NUTRIENTS
Volume 13, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nu13114112
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Crohn's disease; Crohn's disease exclusion diet; dietary therapy
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Exclusive enteral nutrition (EEN) and Crohn's disease exclusion diet (CDED) are both effective in inducing remission in pediatric CD patients. The study demonstrates that CDED is equally effective in adult CD patients, with 76.7% achieving clinical remission after 6 weeks.
Exclusive enteral nutrition (EEN) is a first-line treatment in active, mild to moderate Crohn's disease (CD) in children. The Crohn's disease exclusion diet (CDED), which avoids products known to have a pro-inflammatory effect on the intestinal mucosa, presents similar effectiveness to EEN for inducing remission in the paediatric population. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the CDED in inducing remission in adult patients. Between March 2020 and May 2021, 32 patients in a gastroenterology outpatient centre were treated according to the assumptions of the CDED. The patients were seen at baseline, at week 6, and at week 12 of the study. During the visits, anthropometric measurements and laboratory tests were performed, Crohn's disease activity index (CDAI) was calculated, and the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire (IBDQ) was completed. The study included a total of 32 participants, 18 women (56.3%) and 14 men (43.7%). Clinical remission was obtained in 76.7% patients after 6 weeks and in 82.1% after 12 weeks of therapy. Calprotectin levels were significantly lower in the second follow-up compared with baseline (p = 0.021). The CDED is an effective therapy for inducing remission in the adult CD population.
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