ORLANDO – For people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), that hamburger may come with more than just a side of fries — red meat consumption was linked with a higher risk for ulcerative colitis (UC) flare, researchers reported.
According to an analysis of data from the IBD Partners research, patients with UC who were in the highest quartile of red meat consumption had a higher rate of disease flare versus those in the bottom quartile (OR 2.60, 95% CI 1.26-5.70), according to Adar Zinger, MD, of the University of Chicago Medicine IBD Center.
However, the same association was not seen for Crohn’s disease (CD) flare (OR 1.22, 95% CI 0.75-1.98), nor was it “found with other dietary items high in saturated fat,” such as ice cream, pizza, chocolate, cheese, or milk, explained Zinger during a poster presentation at the Advances in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases annual meeting.
Socrates Bautista, MD, of the Center for Diagnosis, Advanced Medicine, and Telemedicine (CEDIMAT) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, called the study “interesting,” and explained to MedPage Today that “in my country, we eat rice, beans, and red meat. I think this type of information may be helpful in getting my patients with IBDs to change their diets.”
But Bautista, who was not involved in the study, called it “curious…that red meat appears to play a role in UC flares, but other food with high saturated fat…does not. I think this needs more investigation.”
IBD Partners was a longitudinal internet-led cohort study that collected information from adults on demographics, IBD history, and nutritional preferences, using a 26-item dietary questionnaire. Participants did follow-up surveys every 6 months, mainly to keep track of changes in disease activity.
For their study, “dietary intake of food items high in saturated fats was categorized into quartiles and compared using chi square test,” Zingers and colleagues said. Clinical remission was defined as
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