Zoi Katsirma

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Data manager-analyst at Queen Mary University of London

was presented as the Nutrition in the Treatment, Management and Prevention of Disease Theme Highlight. Chronic constipation is a prevalent gastrointestinal condition affecting approximately 10% of the global population ⁽¹⁾ and is associated with substantial healthcare costs and quality of life impairments in the UK ⁽²⁾ . While the aetiology of chro...

Background Dietary approaches are recommended for the management of chronic constipation. Until now, there has been no systematic review and meta‐analysis on foods, drinks and diets in constipation. Aims To investigate the effect of foods, drinks and diets on response to treatment, stool output, gut transit time, symptoms, quality of life, adverse...

Introduction Guidelines recommend specific types of foods and diets for the management of constipation. However, until now there has been no systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence on the effect of diet in constipation. Methods The aim was to investigate the effect of foods, drinks and whole diets on stool output and gut physiology in...

Fruits are the seed-bearing product of plants and have considerable nutritional importance in the human diet. The consumption of fruits is among the dietary strategies recommended for constipation due to its potential effects on the gut microbiota and gut motility. Dietary fiber from fruits has been the subject of research on the impact on gut micr...

In this research communication we describe an innovative protocol that combines three pairs of primers, two from the literature and one designed in our laboratory, for application in triplex-PCR on somatic cell DNA to enable identification of the species origin (cow, sheep, goat) of cheeses and yogurts with a detection limit of 0.1%. Mislabeling wa...