炎症性肠病中的营养不良与少肌症

炎症性肠病目前尚无完全治愈的方法,但药物、营养、和手术治疗可以使疾病缓解。营养不良是炎症性肠病最主要的并发症,导致预后、生活质量恶化。同时,炎症导致机体骨骼肌、脂肪、骨代谢紊乱,引起少肌症,因此对于炎症性肠病的营养不良判定同时不能忽视少肌症。

Malnutrition and Sarcopenia in inflammatory bowel disease

There is no medical cure for inflammatory bowel disease currently.However,when pharmacological therapy,nutritional therapy and surgery are combined,remission of the disease could be induced.Malnutrition is a major complication in IBD,and it is associated with increased mortality and worse clinical outcome.Inflammatory bowel diseases and other conditions characterized by chronic inflammation can alter the homeostasis of muscles,bones,and fat,and they are involved in the pathogenesis of malnutrition and sarcopenia.The importance of sarcopenia in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases should not be ignored.