Title: Association between vitamin C, D, and K intake and inflammatory bowel disease risk:
findings from 2009-2010 NHANES
Version: 0 Date: 31 Jan 2025
Reviewer's report:
Thank you inviting me to peer-review this interesting article.
Abstract:
1. "inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) remains unclear." -> ? development, ? exacerbation.
Please define.
2. "nonsmokers" -> non-smokers.
Introduction:
1. "Research highlighted that" sentence -> Change tense to present as opposed to past.
2. "Emerging evidence suggested that" sentence -> Change tense to present.
Methods:
1. MEC needs to be defined.
2. Who are the trained professionals (?dietitians).
3. Is it possible to flesh out how vitamin intake was calculated/determined? (becomes relevant
later on when discussing how increase in intake is associated with lower IBD risk).
Results:
1. "Table 2 and Figure 3presents" -> Missing space.
2. I'm not sure you need to re-define what confounders are considered in Model 4 as it was
defined in Methods.
Discussion:
1. "which supports vitamin D's protective role" -> which supports the protective role of vitamin
D.
2. "Additionally, vitamin D may improve gut health and reduce IBD risk by positively
influencing gut microbiota composition." -> ?Source.
3. "vitamin K helped prevent" -> Change tense. This is a general comment to review tense as it
flips back and forth but makes most sense to use present tense (e.g. vitamin K helps prevent...).
Please review the paper overall for consistent tense.
4. I want to better understand how the study findings contribute to our understanding of IBD
and how we can manage it. What are the implications of the findings? How can we use these
results to our advantage in detection and management?
Title: Association between vitamin C, D, and K intake and inflammatory bowel disease risk:
findings from 2009-2010 NHANES
Version: 0 Date: 31 Jan 2025
Reviewer's report:
Thank you inviting me to peer-review this interesting article.
Abstract:
1. "inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) remains unclear." -> ? development, ? exacerbation.
Please define.
2. "nonsmokers" -> non-smokers.
Introduction:
1. "Research highlighted that" sentence -> Change tense to present as opposed to past.
2. "Emerging evidence suggested that" sentence -> Change tense to present.
Methods:
1. MEC needs to be defined.
2. Who are the trained professionals (?dietitians).
3. Is it possible to flesh out how vitamin intake was calculated/determined? (becomes relevant
later on when discussing how increase in intake is associated with lower IBD risk).
Results:
1. "Table 2 and Figure 3presents" -> Missing space.
2. I'm not sure you need to re-define what confounders are considered in Model 4 as it was
defined in Methods.
Discussion:
1. "which supports vitamin D's protective role" -> which supports the protective role of vitamin
D.
2. "Additionally, vitamin D may improve gut health and reduce IBD risk by positively
influencing gut microbiota composition." -> ?Source.
3. "vitamin K helped prevent" -> Change tense. This is a general comment to review tense as it
flips back and forth but makes most sense to use present tense (e.g. vitamin K helps prevent...).
Please review the paper overall for consistent tense.
4. I want to better understand how the study findings contribute to our understanding of IBD
and how we can manage it. What are the implications of the findings? How can we use these
results to our advantage in detection and management?
Please review this paper.
user
Title: Association between vitamin C, D, and K intake and inflammatory bowel disease risk:
findings from 2009-2010 NHANES
Version: 0 Date: 31 Jan 2025
Reviewer's report:
Thank you inviting me to peer-review this interesting article.
Abstract:
1. "inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) remains unclear." -> ? development, ? exacerbation.
Please define.
2. "nonsmokers" -> non-smokers.
Introduction:
1. "Research highlighted that" sentence -> Change tense to present as opposed to past.
2. "Emerging evidence suggested that" sentence -> Change tense to present.
Methods:
1. MEC needs to be defined.
2. Who are the trained professionals (?dietitians).
3. Is it possible to flesh out how vitamin intake was calculated/determined? (becomes relevant
later on when discussing how increase in intake is associated with lower IBD risk).
Results:
1. "Table 2 and Figure 3presents" -> Missing space.
2. I'm not sure you need to re-define what confounders are considered in Model 4 as it was
defined in Methods.
Discussion:
1. "which supports vitamin D's protective role" -> which supports the protective role of vitamin
D.
2. "Additionally, vitamin D may improve gut health and reduce IBD risk by positively
influencing gut microbiota composition." -> ?Source.
3. "vitamin K helped prevent" -> Change tense. This is a general comment to review tense as it
flips back and forth but makes most sense to use present tense (e.g. vitamin K helps prevent...).
Please review the paper overall for consistent tense.
4. I want to better understand how the study findings contribute to our understanding of IBD
and how we can manage it. What are the implications of the findings? How can we use these
results to our advantage in detection and management?
assistant