Diet, VegetarianDietary FiberVegetarians and people who consume high fibre diets may have a lower riskdoi:10.1136/bmj.d4115David J HumesJoe WestBritish Medical Journal Publishing GroupBMJ (online)Humes DJ,West J.Diet and risk of diverticular disease. British Medical Journal . 2011...
STUDY QUESTION Do individuals consuming a vegetarian diet and those with a high intake of dietary fibre have a lower risk of diverticular disease? SUMMARY ANSWER The risk of admission to hospital or death from diverticular disease was 30% lower among vegetarians compared with meat eaters and 40%...
Diet and risk of diverticular disease. (cover story)In this article, the authors discus a study that found that the people with vegetarian food habit or those who eat high fibre diets may have a lower risk of diverticular disease. The authors state that there can be potential bias in the ...
J. Diet and risk of diverticular disease in Oxford cohort of European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC): prospective study of British vegetarians and non-vegetarians. BMJ 343, d4131 (2011). This is a large study that found fibre is a significant predictive factor for ...
People who have diverticulosis without symptoms or complications do not need specific treatment, yet it is important to adopt a high-fiber diet to prevent the further formation of diverticula. Laxatives should not be used to treat diverticulosis and enemas should also be avoided or used infrequently...
Diverticular disease surgery is the removal of the diseased part of the colon. There are a number of different aspects of this...
Diverticular disease is one of the most common disorders of the colon among the elderly in Western societies (1). In North America diverticular disease is estimated to occur in one third of all persons older than 45 years of age, and in two thirds of all persons older than 85 years of ...
p pBackground/p pThe incidence of colonic diverticular disease varies with national origin, cultural background and diet. The frequency of this disease increases with advancing age. Right-sided diverticular disease is uncommon and reported to occur in 1-2% of surgical specimens in European and ...
Five questions pertaining to the diagnosis of diverticular disease were addressed: month and year of diagnosis; procedures done to confirm the diagnosis; symptoms leading to the detection of diverticular disease; diet modification prior to the date of diagnosis as a result of symptoms; and treatment...
This review on left-sided colonic diverticulosis and diverticulitis is based both on a literature survey and on the findings of a prospective study which was initiated at the University Hospital in Geneva in October 1986. All patients (except those requi