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Review
. 2020 Oct 8;12(10):3073.
doi: 10.3390/nu12103073.

What was First, Obesity or Inflammatory Bowel Disease? What Does the Gut Microbiota Have to Do with It?

Sara Jarmakiewicz-Czaja  1 , Aneta Sokal  1 , Rafał Filip  2   3
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Review

What was First, Obesity or Inflammatory Bowel Disease? What Does the Gut Microbiota Have to Do with It?

Sara Jarmakiewicz-Czaja et al. Nutrients. .

Abstract

A sedentary lifestyle and inadequate nutrition often leads to disturbances in intestinal homeostasis, which may predispose people to excess body weight and metabolic syndrome. Obesity is frequently observed in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), similar to the general population. Obesity may exert a negative effect on the course of IBD as well as reduce the response to treatment. Moreover, it may also be an additional risk factor for vein thromboembolism during the flare. In both obesity and IBD, it is of great importance to implement proper dietary ingredients that exert desirable effect on gut microbiota. The key to reducing body mass index (BMI) and alleviating the course of IBD is preserving healthy intestinal microflora.

Keywords: gut microbiota; inflammatory bowel diseases; obesity.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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The influence of selected factors on the intestinal microbiota [64].
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The influence of nutritional factors on the intestinal microbiota.
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