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Nottingham gastroenterology professor Gordon Moran worked on the paper published by the Nature group, investigating paediatric onset.

The team investigated the relationship between adiposity and disease outcomes in paediatric Crohn’s disease, which is limited and lacks consensus.

848 participants with CD were recruited and participants with high BMI experienced a greater frequency of EIMs than those with low BMI.

They concluded a higher BMI and an earlier age of disease onset are associated with worse CD clinical presentation.

Read the full paper here.