Improvement of Inflammation and Pain after Three Months' Exclusion Diet in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients.

ABSTRACT: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic systemic autoimmune disease affecting the synovial joints and causing severe disability. Environmental and lifestyle factors, including diet, have been proposed to play a role in the onset and severity of RA. Dietary manipulation may help to manage the symptoms of RA by lowering inflammation and potentially decreasing pain. In 40 patients with long-standing RA with stable symptoms and treated with conventional (c-) and biological (b-) disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs), the effect of a 3-month diet avoiding meat, gluten, and lactose (and all dairy products; privative diet) was evaluated in comparison with a control balanced diet including those foods. Both diets were designed to reduce weight since all patients were overweight or obese. P

SUBMITTER: Guagnano MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8539601 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature