Nutritional Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the gastrointestinal tract. Patients with IBD are at risk of malnutrition and growth failure, largely depending upon their disease burden. Growing evidence suggests that diet plays an important role in modulating the intestinal microbiota, gut mucosal barrier and hence the intestinal immune system.

Patterns of medical and developmental comorbidities among children presenting with feeding problems: a latent class analysis.

Objective: Children with feeding problems often have multiple co-occurring medical and developmental conditions; however, it is unknown whether patterns of comorbidity exist and whether they relate to important feeding-related health outcomes. The main objective of this study was to examine (1) the relationship between the number of medical and developmental comorbidities and important feeding-related health outcomes; (2) how various comorbidities interact and form empirically derived patterns; and (3) how empirically derived patterns of comorbidity relate to weight status, nutritional variety, and child and parent mealtime behavior problems.

Methods: The medical records of 286 children (mean age = 35.