Are dietary and total calcium intakes associated with lower percentage total body and truncal fat in young , healthy adults?
Our findings support a relationship, even after adjusting for physical activity, between higher dietary and total calcium intakes and lower total body and truncal fat in young adults. Results suggest an intake of approximately 1500 mg/d calcium could aid in the management of body and truncal fat. We recommend that young adults be encouraged to increase their total calcium intakes to at least the recommended daily allowance of 1000 mg/d for reasons extending beyond bone health.
Preoperative biologic treatment or immunomodulation had no influence on anastomotic complications. The study confirms previous findings of corticosteroids and a colo-colic anastomosis as negative predictors and also that surgical complexity, as expressed by bleeding and operation time, may contribute to anastomotic complications.