A CLINICAL REVIEW OF RECENT FINDINGS IN THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE

Alexis Ponder, Drive Shaft Millie D LongDepartment of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USAAbstract: Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), including both Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, are disorders of chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract marked by episodes of relapse and remission.Over the past seve