Clinical Gastroenterology Vol.13 No.1(6)

Theme Treatment of Crohn's Disease
Title Life Style Guidance for Crohn's Disease
Publish Date 1998/01
Author Atsuhiro Iwai The Second Department of Internal Medicine, National Defence Medical College, School of Medicine
[ Summary ] The purpose of life style guidance for Crohn's disease (CD) is to increase the quality of life (QOL) in patients with CD. Furthermore, it has been reported that with psychological measures and the disease activity as a single variable, this composite variable significantly predicted the QOL of CD, but disease activity alone did not predict overall QOL. Improvement of QOL does not require only medical treatment, but psychological. Thus, we provide an outline of whole life style guidance, especially mental care.
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