Crohns disease inflammatory bowel disease
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Children with clinical suspicion for CD. 2. Between 6 and 18 years of age. 3. Naïve to any medical or nutritional intervention.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Chronic treatment with any drug upon enrolment and the se of systemic antibiotics, probiotics or proton pump inhibitors during 30 days prior to enrollment. 2. Pregnancy in the last 6 months, breastfeeding. 3. Morbid obesity (BMI > 95th percentile for their age and gender). 4. Following particular dietary regimen/dietitian consultation/participation in another study. 5. Chronic use of steroids or immunomodulatory medications prior to CD diagnosis. 6. Any other chronic disease (e.g. HIV, Cushing disease, acromegaly, hyperthyroidism, etc.), cancer and recent anti-cancer therapy, neuro-psychiatric disorders, coagulation disorders, celiac disease or any other chronic GI disorder. 7. Gut-related surgery, including bariatric surgery. 8. Inability of the participant and nuclear family to follow and utilize the smartphone application.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Collect an unprecedented number of clinical, microbiome, barrier function-related, inflammatory and metabolic measurements from a cohort of newly diagnosed pediatric CD patients followed for a period of 12 months. 2. Analyze this *big data* with an aim to utilize advanced artificial intelligence and machine-learning techniques to correlate multiple dietary, environmental, and microbiome features to disease severity scores, and metabolic (glycemic control) features in these patients. 3. Devise individualized machine learning algorithms aimed at harnessing personalized nutritional recommendations to improve individual inflammatory and metabolic features. 4. Validate these algorithms in a sub-cohort of newly diagnosed CD patients not involved in the initial machine learning *training* process. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
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| - | — |
Countries
Netherlands