Maintaining healthylifestyle might prevent up to 60% of inflammatoryboweldisease cases, suggests new research
Illustration of bacteria in the human gut. Credit: Darryl Leja, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health
The Nurses' Health Study enrolled 121,700 female nurses from 11 U.S. states in 1976, while the NHSII study, established in1989, monitored 116,429 female nurses from 15 U.S. states. The HPFS included 51,529 male doctors from across the U.S. in 1986.risk factors The researchers then estimated the proportion of avoidable cases if an overall healthy lifestyle were adopted and maintained. Scores of 0-9 were assigned to each participant, with higher scores indicating a healthier lifestyle.
Based on the MRS scores, the researchers estimated that a low MRS could have prevented 43% and 44.5%, respectively, of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis cases.
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