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Evidence found and GRADE certainty

455 questions · 462 findings · 28 reviews

No studies found 107 · 23.2%GRADE not reported 92 · 19.9%Very low 98 · 21.2%Low 75 · 16.2%Moderate 68 · 14.7%High 22 · 4.8%

Curcumin vs placebo

Relapse at 6 months Clinical Disease Activty Index more than 42 · Maintenance of remission in ulcerative colitis

Curcumin showed no clear difference in relapse at 6 months Clinical Disease Activty Index more than 42 compared with placebo (low certainty).

1 finding from 1 review

Curcumin vs placebo

Relapse at 12 months Clinical Disease Activty Index more than 42 · Maintenance of remission in ulcerative colitis

Curcumin showed no clear difference in relapse at 12 months Clinical Disease Activty Index more than 42 compared with placebo (low certainty).

1 finding from 1 review

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) vs Healthy controls without IBD

DMFT/DMFS index (dental caries experience) · Patients with IBD (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis) and controls without IBD

Most included studies reported higher dental caries indices (DMF-t/DMF-s) in IBD patients (especially ulcerative colitis), but findings were inconsistent across studies and were not meta-analyzed or GRADE-rated.

1 finding from 1 review
  • Oral Health Status in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: A Systematic Review. 2021 All outcomes
    Hospital/clinic-based case-control and cross-sectional studies in 11 countries; 15 studies total (1748 participants: 1104 Crohn's disease, 534 ulcerative colitis, 110 IBD-form unspecified)
    Not meta-analyzed (heterogeneity of caries indices). Abstract: "in most studies, patients with IBD were characterized by higher values of caries indices." Table 3 examples (IBD/subtype vs control): Zhang 2020 DMF-t…
    Studies not reported
    GRADE not reported

Intervention diet vs control diet

Clinical relapse · Patients with quiescent ulcerative colitis

It is very uncertain whether intervention diet changes clinical relapse at 6 months ‐ Anti‐inflammatory diet (Alberta‐based) compared with control diet (very low certainty).

3 findings from 1 review