Factors associated with dietary practices and beliefs on food of patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases: A multicentre cross-sectional study
Authors' conclusion
This study provides insights into patients' dietary practices and factors associated with these practices, including patients' health beliefs and insufficient support by health professionals, in RMDs.
Study context
- Population
- Patients with inflammatory arthritis (RA, axSpA) or hand OA from secondary- and tertiary-care centres, 2019–2020392 analysed
- Participants
- 448 patients
- Exposure
- RA vs axSpA vs hand osteoarthritis (HOA)
- RAn = 123
- axSpAn = 161
- HOAn = 108
- Outcome
- Dietary practices and patients' perceived effects of diet, foods and beverages on symptoms, and associated factors
Methodological detailsmulticentre, self-administered questionnaire, univariable and multivariable analyses
- Multicentre
- Self-administered questionnaire
- Univariable and multivariable analyses
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
On or had been on at least one exclusion diet (mostly cow's milk- and gluten-free in inflammatory arthritis (IA); cow's milk-free and detox/fasting in HOA)
26%
Followed the Mediterranean diet
5%
Decrease in pain among patients who had tried a diet
51%
Identified at least one food or beverage that increased or decreased pain
42%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Factors associated with dietary practices and beliefs on food of patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases: A multicentre cross-sectional study. Joint Bone Spine. Published 18 September 2024. doi:10.
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