Ami D. Sperber, Shrikant I. Bangdiwala, Douglas A. Drossman, Uday C. Ghoshal et al.
BACKGROUND & AIMS Although functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs), now called disorders of gut-brain interaction, have major economic effects on healthcare systems and adversely affect quality of life, little is known about their global prevalence and distribution. We investigated the prevale...
William J. Sandborn, Brian G. Feagan, Stephen B. Hanauer, Herbert Lochs et al.
Hannah Gordon, Silvia Minozzi, Uri Kopylov, Bram Verstockt et al.
sponsorship: This project was initiated, funded, and supported by ECCO. (ECCO)
Vineet Ahuja, Rakesh K. Tandon
The Asia-Pacific region has been marked as an area with a low incidence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), although confusion always existed as to whether this low incidence was a result of low diagnostic awareness, a high incidence of infective diarrhoea and its diagnostic overlap or a true low i...
Livingstone Solomon, Sorsiah Mansor, Peter Mallon, Eilish Donnelly et al.
Michel Adamina, Silvia Minozzi, Janindra Warusavitarne, Christianne J. Buskens et al.
This article is the second in a series of two publications on the European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation [ECCO] evidence-based consensus on the management of Crohn's disease. The first article covers medical management; the present article addresses surgical management, including preoperative asp...
Brian L. Browning, Claudia Hüebner, Ivonne Petermann, Richard B. Gearry et al.
OBJECTIVES: Published association studies of the TLR4 Asp299Gly polymorphism and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in caucasian populations have inconsistent results. We tested two TLR4 variants for association with IBD in the New Zealand caucasian population and assessed the cumulative evidence for ...
Scott Montgomery, David Morris, R E Pounder, A J Wakefield
OBJECTIVE: To assess whether inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is more prevalent in young Asians than Europeans living in Great Britain. DESIGN: Longitudinal birth cohort study of all those born 5-11 April 1970 in Great Britain--the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70). METHODS: The relationship of a di...
Alok Kumar Paul, Anita Paul, Rownak Jahan, Khoshnur Jannat et al.
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic autoimmune disorder that can lead to disability conditions with swollen joints, pain, stiffness, cartilage degradation, and osteoporosis. Genetic, epigenetic, sex-specific factors, smoking, air pollution, food, oral hygiene, periodontitis, Prevotella, and imbalance ...
Md Rashedunnabi Akanda, Hyeon‐Hwa Nam, Weishun Tian, Anowarul Islam et al.
Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a major inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has become a worldwide emergent disease. Veronica polita (VP) is a medicinal herb that has strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. In the present study, we studied the protective effect of VP on dextran sulfate sodium (...
David G. Walker, Horace R. Williams, Stephen P Kane, Joel Mawdsley et al.
OBJECTIVES: The incidence and prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is increasing throughout Asia. Since the 1950s, there has been substantial migration from South Asia (India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh) to the United Kingdom. The aim of this study was to define the clinical phenotype of IBD...
Ravi Misra, Omar Faiz, Pia Munkholm, Johan Burisch et al.
AIM: To summarise the current literature and define patterns of disease in migrant and racial groups. METHODS: A structured key word search in Ovid Medline and EMBASE was undertaken in accordance with PRISMA guidelines. Studies on incidence, prevalence and disease phenotype of migrants and races com...
Shahanavaj Khan, Ahamad Imran, Abdul Malik, Anis Ahmad Chaudhary et al.
Hosts and microbes have co-evolved over millions of years. Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), including Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), are chronic immune-mediated diseases. Although the etiology of IBD remains an enigma, various studies have proposed the involvement of mucosa-ass...
Irin Perveen, Mahmud Hasan, MohammedA Masud, MohammedM.R Bhuiyan et al.
BACKGROUND/AIMS: Although irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common gastrointestinal disorder, its prevalence is unknown, especially in the urban population of Bangladesh. This community-based study aimed to find out the prevalence of IBS and healthcare-seeking patterns using the Rome-II definition...
Dong Hyuk Shin, Dong Hyun Sinn, Young‐Ho Kim, Jin Yong Kim et al.
Background and aims Temporal trends in incidence rates of Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) can provide valuable clues about etiology. Korea has a draft system, and every male must fulfill his military service. However, according to military rules, patients with CD and UC are not cons...