This is a small study published in the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24897165
My husband is a lot better with medical journals than I am, especially where statistics are involved. Here's his interpretation:
Nine patients did the diet for 12 weeks. The average value of the PCDAI (Pediatric Crohn's Disease Activity Index) went from 21 to 8. So the average patient went into remission on the diet, and based on the standard error, only 16 percent of cases were not in remission. Given the overall number, that means 1 or 2 children did not go into remission on the diet. That, right there, is better than ... pretty much any other treatment I've seen. And that squares with what Elaine Gottschall said and with the other published studies (that 75% go into remission on the diet).
The Harvey-Bradshaw index went from just over 3 to 0.6. Again the average patient was not very sick at the start, but was fully in remission at 12 weeks.
Seven patient stayed on the diet beyond 12 weeks. (I'm guessing the two kids who didn't go into remission dropped, which is Gottschall's advice.) At 52 weeks, the Harvey-Bradshaw index averaged 0.1 In other words, the seven kids whom the diet helped, were all essentially free of symptoms at one year. That's damned good news. Based on what I recall from studying the literature, for children in mainstream therapy, the odds of remaining in remission for a year were under 50/50. Taking that at 50 percent, the odds of seven kids remaining in remission one year is like 7 "heads" in a row, or p < .01 (less than a 1-in-100 chance of seeing that merely by chance.)
My husband is a lot better with medical journals than I am, especially where statistics are involved. Here's his interpretation:
Nine patients did the diet for 12 weeks. The average value of the PCDAI (Pediatric Crohn's Disease Activity Index) went from 21 to 8. So the average patient went into remission on the diet, and based on the standard error, only 16 percent of cases were not in remission. Given the overall number, that means 1 or 2 children did not go into remission on the diet. That, right there, is better than ... pretty much any other treatment I've seen. And that squares with what Elaine Gottschall said and with the other published studies (that 75% go into remission on the diet).
The Harvey-Bradshaw index went from just over 3 to 0.6. Again the average patient was not very sick at the start, but was fully in remission at 12 weeks.
Seven patient stayed on the diet beyond 12 weeks. (I'm guessing the two kids who didn't go into remission dropped, which is Gottschall's advice.) At 52 weeks, the Harvey-Bradshaw index averaged 0.1 In other words, the seven kids whom the diet helped, were all essentially free of symptoms at one year. That's damned good news. Based on what I recall from studying the literature, for children in mainstream therapy, the odds of remaining in remission for a year were under 50/50. Taking that at 50 percent, the odds of seven kids remaining in remission one year is like 7 "heads" in a row, or p < .01 (less than a 1-in-100 chance of seeing that merely by chance.)