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Dietary Polyphenols in the Aetiology of Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis-A Multicenter European Prospective Cohort Study (EPIC)

Following a diet that promotes the intake of polyphenol-rich plant foods may help curtail the development of Crohn's disease.

This study assessed if consistent consumption of polyphenols from food sources is tied to lower risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Researchers surveyed the diet and health of more than 400,000 European men and women over a 7-year period. During the course of the study, a total of 354 cases of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease was recorded in the study population. 

Researchers identified a favorable association between high dietary ingestion of polyphenols, such as flavones and resveratrol, and reduced risk of Crohn's disease. This study affirmed that regular intake of polyphenol-rich plant foods may help thwart the development of Crohn's disease.

Research Summary Information

  • 2017
  • Yunxia Lu, Raul Zamora-Ros, Simon Chan, Amanda J Cross, Heather Ward, Paula Jakszyn, Robert Luben, Jorrit L Opstelten, Bas Oldenburg, Göran Hallmans, Pontus Karling, Olof Grip, Timothy Key, Manuela M Bergmann, Heiner Boeing, Kim Overvad, Domenico Palli, Giovanna Masala, Kay-Tee Khaw, Antoine Racine, Franck Carbonnel, Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault, Vibeke Andersen, Anja Olsen, Anne Tjonneland, Rudolf Kaaks, Rosario Tumino, Antonia Trichopoulou, Augustin Scalbert, Elio Riboli, Andrew R Hart
  • 1Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; 2Program in Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of California, Irvine, California; 3Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; 4Biomarker Group, Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France; 5Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research Programme, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain; 6Department of Medicine, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom; 7Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust, Norwich, United Kingdom; 8Strangeways Research Laboratory, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; 9Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands; 10Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Nutritional Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; 11Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, GI Unit, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; 12Department of Clinical Sciences, University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden; 13Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; 14Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam, Germany; 15Department of Public Health, Section for Epidemiology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; 16Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Centre, Florence, Italy; 17INSERM, Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, U1018, Team 9, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France; 18Université Paris Sud, UMRS 1018, Villejuif, France; 19Department of Gastroenterology, Bicêtre University Hospital, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France; 20Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark; 21Focused Research Unit for Molecular and Clinical Research, Institute of Regional Research- Center Sønderjylland, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark; 22Laboratory Center, Hospital of Southern Jutland, Aabenraa, Denmark; 23Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark; 24Division of Clinical Epidemiology, DKFZ-German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany; 25Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic-M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, ASP Ragusa, Italy; and 26WHO Collaborating Center for Food and Nutrition Policies, Athens, Greece.
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