Nutrition News

Data from the UK BioBank demonstrated patients with obesity and fatty liver had an increased risk for symptomatic COVID-19 infection, according to a release from Perspectum.

One in eight patients with inflammatory bowel disease are food insecure and lack social support, according to research published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

In newly issued guidelines, the American Gastroenterological Association did not recommend using probiotics for most digestive conditions.

While gastrointestinal symptoms like anorexia and diarrhea are common in both patients with COVID-19 and those without, these symptoms plus a loss of smell, taste and fever were 99% specific for COVID-19, according to a study published in Gastroenterology.

College-aged men who played video games consumed less healthier foods than their nongaming peers, according to data presented at Nutrition 2020 Live Online.

No correlation was seen between dietary gluten intake and the risk for incidence Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis among women without celiac disease, according to data from Digestive Disease Week.

Sugar consumption appeared related to psychiatric comorbidities among patients with inflammatory bowel disease, according to research from Digestive Disease Week.

Among nearly half a million adults from the United States and Canada who underwent weight-loss surgery, those with lower presurgical BMI and those who lost even a small amount of weight before the procedure were less likely to die within 30 days, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

A food allergy free diet may effectively improve histologic, molecular, endoscopic and symptomatic disease activity in adult patients with eosinophilic gastritis/gastroenteritis, according to data from Digestive Disease Week.

The American Gastroenterological Association published new guidelines focused on the treatment of children and adults with eosinophilic esophagitis.