Cure8 research brief
Patients with Crohn's reported more relapses and are more likely to see diet as a relapse trigger; nutritional therapy (including elemental diets) is used more often in Crohn's than UC in this Japanese sample. This affects patient support needs around diet and app-based management.
Adult IBD patients (especially Crohn's), caregivers, gastroenterology clinicians, dietitians, and researchers studying nutrition or digital health in IBD.
This is a patient-reported survey (web-based) describing perceptions and current use of nutritional strategies in Japan. The study reports higher self-perceived relapse frequency and greater dietary-management awareness in Crohn's disease compared with ulcerative colitis.
About half of Crohn's patients had received nutritional therapy and nearly one-third were using elemental diets; many patients consumed 300–900 kcal/day on these regimens and some noted symptom improvement, but discontinuation often reflected physician direction or difficulty with intake.
Practical points: The paper highlights a need for better dietary guidance, support to sustain elemental-diet use when appropriate, and promoting digital health tools for self-management. It does not provide clinical outcomes from randomized comparisons, so it should not be read as evidence that one diet prevents relapse.
This report is a cross-sectional, web-based survey of patient perceptions and self-reported practices in Japan; it describes usage patterns and opinions rather than proving efficacy. The extracted content is from the article abstract.
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