ECCO consensus on diet and nutrition in IBD

A team of researchers developed an ECCO consensus paper on diet and nutrition in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including statements on IBD risk factors, nutritional assessment and optimisation, diet for induction, diet for maintenance, and diet for special conditions.

Dr Richard Hansen (University of Dundee, UK) and his team performed a systematic review on diet and nutrition in IBD, for which they screened 11,470 abstracts and included 659 papers. A total of 74 statements were adopted in the ECCO consensus paper. “General recommendations included that patients with IBD should have access to a dietitian who has experience with IBD and that people with IBD should adopt a diet that is in line with healthy eating guidelines,” said Dr Hansen [1]. “I would also like to highlight that the diet to reduce the risk for IBD is very different from the diet that is used as induction or maintenance therapy in patients with IBD.”

Five working groups developed statements for various topics within the scope of IBD management. Dr Hansen and Dr Vaios Svolos (University of Thessaly, Greece) presented a selection of these statements.

1. Svolos V and Hansen R. ECCO consensus on diet and nutrition in IBD. SCI17, 20th Congress of ECCO, 19–22 February 2025, Berlin, Germany.

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Posted on 8 April 20258 April 2025