Inflammatory Bowel Disease
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Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) refers to a group of digestive disorders that includes:
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Dysbiosis of the intestinal microflora leading to increased inflammatory pathways in the colonic epithelial cells is thought to be an underlying cause of inflammatory bowel disease.[1] Ulcerative colitis is more common than Crohn’s in the United States and Western countries. These disease are two to four times more common in Caucasians over non-Caucasians and is rarely seen in Asia, Africa and South America..[1] [2], [3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Murray Michael, Pizzorno Joseph (1998) Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine Three Rivers Press, New York
- ↑ Kumar Vinay, Abbas Abul, Fausto Nelson, Mitchell Richard, editors. (2007) Robbins Basic Pathology 8th Edition. Saunders Elselvier, Philidelphia
- ↑ Kaur N, Chen CC, Luther J, Kao JY (Jul-Aug 2011) Intestinal dysbiosis in inflammatory bowel disease. Gut Microbes;2(4):211-6. PMID: 21983063.