Study highlights the need for research into prevention of inflammatory bowel disease

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Countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and South America have seen a rise in incidence of inflammatory bowel disease as they have become increasingly industrialised and westernised, a new study has found.

The study, published in The Lancet, was a systematic review of 147 world-wide observational studies reporting on the incidence or prevalence of two of the main conditions of inflammatory bowel disease – Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis – between 1990 and 2016.Read full article…