Social Media as Tools to Study Dietary Habits of Patients with Rheumatic Diseases: Learning from Relevant Work on Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Xenophon Theodoridis^{1

2}, Stefanos Pittas², Dimitrios P Bogdanos^{1

3}, Maria G Grammatikopoulou¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece.
² Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
³ Division of Transplantation Immunology and Mucosal Biology, MRC Centre for Transplantation, King's College London Medical School, SE5 9RS, London, United Kingdom.

Xenophon Theodoridis et al. Mediterr J Rheumatol. 2020.

. 2020 Dec 22;31(4):382-383.

doi: 10.31138/mjr.31.4.382. eCollection 2020 Dec.

Xenophon Theodoridis^{1

2}, Stefanos Pittas², Dimitrios P Bogdanos^{1

3}, Maria G Grammatikopoulou¹

¹ Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece.
² Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
³ Division of Transplantation Immunology and Mucosal Biology, MRC Centre for Transplantation, King's College London Medical School, SE5 9RS, London, United Kingdom.

No abstract available

Keywords: diet; infodemiology; rheumatic diseases; social media.

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