Diet

Most people do not need to reduce the amount of red and processed meat that they eat, according to new guidelines published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The recommendations run contrary to previous findings.

SAN DIEGO — Prolonged adherence to urate-lowering therapies is critical for patients to manage gout, yet only a fraction of patients receive the appropriate therapy, according to a presentation at the 2019 Congress of Clinical Rheumatology West.

Factors including sex, waist size and sleep contribute to medical students having an approximately 2.4 times higher prevalence of hypertension than the general population, according to research presented at the American Heart Association Hypertension Scientific Sessions.

Oncology is a precision medicine-driven field. We strive to choose the right treatment based on each patient and their tumor characteristics. We’ve made great strides with this approach in terms of drug therapies. Our lifestyle recommendations, however, including dietary recommendations, have remained fairly general and, at this point, apply to all cancer survivors regardless of cancer type or tumor characteristics. We obviously consider certain patient characteristics — such as body weight, comorbidities, food preferences and allergies — but as much as we want to achieve personalized nutrition on a broad scale, we’re not quite there.

Replacing red meat with poultry may lower the risk for breast cancer, according to study results published in the International Journal of Cancer.

Patients aged 50 years who adhered to recommendations from the American Heart Association’s Life’s Simple 7 metric for CV health had a lower risk for dementia later in life, according to a study published in The BMJ.

Eating more plant-based foods and less animal products lowered the risk for CV morbidity and mortality in a general population of middle-aged adults.

Increased intake of dietary vitamin A decreases the risk of incident squamous cell carcinoma, according to a large, prospective study.

SAN DIEGO — The Crohn’s Disease Exclusion Diet appeared to be an effective and well-tolerated, first-line therapy for children with mild-to-moderate Crohn’s disease, according to data presented at Digestive Disease Week.

Healio spoke with Linda Nguyen, MD, about distinguishing between IBS-C, CIC and other types of constipation, new developments in IBS-C, considerations of the low FODMAP diet and the need for better IBS diagnosis.