Cure8 research brief
Malnutrition and growth failure at diagnosis are common in children with IBD—especially Crohn’s—and can indicate higher inflammatory burden. Monitoring and addressing nutrition and growth is important because most children improve over time, but early identification guides clinical care.
Pediatric patients with IBD, parents and caregivers of children with IBD, and pediatric gastroenterologists/nutrition teams.
This multicentre retrospective cohort study in children with Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis examined nutritional status and linear growth at diagnosis and during follow-up, and whether underweight or stunting at diagnosis were linked to later clinical outcomes.
Key findings reported in the abstract: about 23% of the 128 children were underweight at diagnosis (more common in Crohn’s than UC), and 7% had growth failure (stunting). Most underweight children improved their BMI over a mean follow-up of ~29 months.
The authors report that baseline underweight was not independently associated with higher risk of relapse after adjustment.
This record is an abstracted multicentre retrospective cohort study reported in Nutrients. The available text is the article abstract (structured summary); the brief above is grounded in that abstract rather than a full peer-reviewed narrative or individual patient data. The study reports associations but does not establish causation.
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