Editorial of the Special Issue "Dietary Fiber and Inflammatory Bowel Disease"

Gang Liu; Xiaoyue Xu

doi:10.3390/nu14224861

Editorial of the Special Issue "Dietary Fiber and Inflammatory Bowel Disease"

Nutrients. 2022 Nov 17;14(22):4861. doi: 10.3390/nu14224861.

Authors

Gang Liu^{1

2}, Xiaoyue Xu³

Affiliations

¹ School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia.
² Centre for Inflammation, Centenary Institute, Camperdown, NSW 2050, Australia.
³ School of Population Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.

Abstract

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, is a chronic disease of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract; its burden has significantly increased in recent decades, with 6.8 million cases of IBD reported in 2017 according to the Global Burden of Disease study [...].

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Chronic Disease
Colitis, Ulcerative*
Crohn Disease*
Dietary Fiber
Humans
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases* / etiology

Substances

Dietary Fiber

Grants and funding

This research received no external funding.