Association of dietary diversity score and severity of pemphigus vulgaris: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous studies support the protective role of a balanced diet containing several foods and nutrients in controlling the autoimmune bullous disease. Dietary diversity score (DDS) is a measure of diet quality based on the number of different food groups consumed, which may influence immune function and inflammatory responses relevant to autoimmune diseases such as pemphigus vulgaris. The present study was designed to investigate the potential the association between DDS and the risk of high-severity Pemphigus Vulgaris (PV) disease in adult Iranian patients.

Methods

A cross-sectional study was performed on 138 patients, aged 18-65 years, with confirmed diagnoses of PV in a referral university center for autoimmune bullous diseases. Dietary intakes were assessed usi

SUBMITTER: Azad BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12606824 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature