We are finally included in a study!

jessica329 · Post by **jessica329** » Thu Mar 02, 2017 8:32 pm

"The team analyzed the gut microbiome from an IBD cohort of 137 individuals – 49 with Crohn’s disease (including inflammation of the ileum or colon), 60 with ulcerative colitis, four with lymphocytic colitis, 15 with collagenous colitis and nine healthy controls."

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/876051

Post by **tex** » Thu Mar 02, 2017 11:12 pm

How about that? Definitely a step in the right direction.

But they left out one of the IBDs — celiac disease. Including and comparing/analyzing microbiome data from celiac patients would have provided them with some valuable insight and it might have occurred to someone that maybe, just maybe, gluten sensitivity has something to do with all IBDs. But they threw that opportunity away by ignoring celiac disease in the study.

Thanks for the link.

Tex

Erica P-G · Post by **Erica P-G** » Fri Mar 03, 2017 5:00 pm

I read that just today Jessica...

and yes they left out celiac...such a pity. But it is a start and they even mentioned Richland WA and I'm only 45 miles away from there and PNNL which is the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in that city...it was quit interesting to read something so close to home.