SynthesisEuropean journal of nutrition2017
Body mass index and physical activity and the risk of diverticular disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies.
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- Physical activity and the risk of cataract and age-related macular degeneration: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies.BMC ophthalmology · 2026Pooled it
- Physical activity and the risk of sudden cardiac death: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2020Pooled it
- Dietary fibre intake and the risk of diverticular disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies.European journal of nutrition · 2020Pooled it
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- Progression rate of diverticular disease and associated risk factors: results from 5-year longitudinal prospective nationwide diverticular disease registry (REMAD).Internal and emergency medicine · 2026Article
- Genetic Risk, Healthy Lifestyle, and Risk Stratification for Diverticulitis.Journal of the American College of Surgeons · 2026Article
- Relationship of coffee consumption with colonic diverticulosis.BMC gastroenterology · 2025Article
- Dietary Risk Factors: Fiber and Beyond.Clinics in colon and rectal surgery · 2025Review
- Prospective analysis of adiposity metrics for complicated acute colonic diverticulitis: Should WSES Classification and visceral adiposity be integrated for predictive analyses?European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2025Article
- Diverticulitis in Older Adults: A Review of Etiology, Diagnosis, and Management.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2025Review
- Protecting the Heart in Motion: The Role of Physical Activity and Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Preventing Sudden Cardiac Death.Clinical Medicine Insights. Cardiology · 2025Review
- Dietary and lifestyle insulinemic potentials, plasma metabolome, and risk of diverticulitis: a prospective cohort study.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2024Article
- Clinical features and risk factors for appendiceal diverticulitis: a comparative study with acute appendicitis.Surgery today · 2024Article
- Unmet needs in treatment of symptomatic uncomplicated diverticular disease and prevention of recurrent acute diverticulitis: a scoping review.Therapeutic advances in gastroenterology · 2024Article
- Hemogram-Derived Ratios in the Prognosis of Acute Diverticulitis.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Physical Fitness Among Subjects with Asymptomatic Colonic Diverticulosis.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2023Article
- Birth weight, childhood body mass index, and risk of diverticular disease in adulthood.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2023Article
- Seasonal variations in acute diverticular disease hospitalisations in New Zealand.International journal of colorectal disease · 2023Article
- Association of Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity Level With Risks of Hospitalization for 25 Common Health Conditions in UK Adults.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Symptomatic Uncomplicated Diverticular Disease (SUDD): Practical Guidance and Challenges for Clinical Management.Clinical and experimental gastroenterology · 2023Review
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Abstract
purposeWe conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies of the association between body mass index (BMI) and physical activity and diverticular disease risk.
methodsPubMed and Embase databases were searched up to February 7, 2017. Summary relative risks and 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) were calculated using a random effects model and nonlinear associations were modeled using fractional polynomial models.
resultsSix cohort studies of BMI and diverticular disease risk (28,915 cases, 1,636,777 participants) and five cohort studies of physical activity and diverticular disease risk (2080 cases, 147,869 participants) were included. The summary relative risk (RR) of incident diverticular disease for a 5 unit BMI increment was 1.28 (95% CI: 1.18-1.40, I
conclusionsThese results suggest that even moderate increases in BMI may increase the risk of diverticular disease as well as diverticular disease complications and that a higher level of physical activity may reduce the risk.
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