App For Inflammatory Bowel Disease

A new app for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients has been launched. IBD is characterized by inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract.

A new app for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients known as ’IBD NutriCare App’ has been launched by researchers in the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in order to help IBD patients with their diet plans.

This Android and iOS-based digital health platform in the form of a smartphone application is developed and validated for real-time tracking of dietary details and recording the data on a large scale for patients with IBD, as told by the ICMR.

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‘The digital health platform (IBD NutriCare) for telenutrition provides a potential tool for improving patient care in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).’

It will provide a personalized patient response to a database on their demographics, medications, daily dietary intake, clinical symptoms, and disease course, and will record diet variables based on nearly 650 Indian food recipes.

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This telenutrition tool is a pioneering initiative undertaken by the ICMR’s Centre for Advanced Research & Excellence (CARE) in Intestinal Diseases with Dr. Vineet Ahuja, professor in Gastroenterology, AIIMS, New Delhi as principal investigator to transform India’s intestinal disease research and clinical practices.

The ICMR had commissioned, in 2019, a multidisciplinary CARE in intestinal diseases project with a team of researchers from various fields, including gastroenterologists, dieticians, and app developers, to develop a culturally, educationally, and linguistically relevant digital health platform. The IBD NutriCare App is available in eight Indian languages like Hindi, English, Marathi, Telugu, Gujarati, Tamil, Malayalam, and Bengali, covering major geographical regions across India.

According to the Intestinal Disease Burden research paper published in 2017, the estimated disease burden in 2010 for India was 1.4 million patients with IBD, as compared to 1.6 million in the US, which is the highest in the world. The data depicts that the burden of IBD has had an upward trajectory in recent years, with disease rates paralleling the West.

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This smartphone app provides real-time data which alerts the nutritionist or dietician regarding adherence issues, erroneous entries, and incorrect information, thus helping timely dietary interventions and formulating individualized diet plans.

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Source-IANS

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