You are correct Uniform Charlie and the discussion section of the paper talks about that weakness. A case series study design does not tell you anything about the efficacy of a treatment in a...
I agree that medications are essential in the management of IBD and my interest in diet is more for a supplementary role. I welcome your comments thank you....
That's not the intent of this paper. It's to show there exists a subset of patients with IBD (proven by endoscopy and pathology reports) who are maintaining clinical remission by implementing the...
You are correct that this a limitation of this case series (and is a limitation of all case series). This was mentioned in the discussion. Certainly the placebo effect can come into play and we also...
My name is Samir Kakodkar, MD, and I am currently a gastroenterology fellow in Illinois. In case anyone was interested, I am very excited to inform you that I just published the largest case series...