What is Inflammatory bowel disease?
What is Inflammatory bowel disease?
- Inflammatory bowel disease: Any type of digestive condition caused by bowel inflammation.
- Inflammatory bowel disease: Representing a spectrum of small and large bowel inflammatory diseases of unknown etiology. It includes Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and colitis of indeterminate type. --2003
Source - Diseases Database
- Inflammatory bowel disease: inflammation of the colon.
Source - WordNet 2.1
Inflammatory bowel disease: Introduction
Types of Inflammatory bowel disease:
Types of Inflammatory bowel disease:
Broader types of Inflammatory bowel disease:
How many people get Inflammatory bowel disease?
Prevalance of Inflammatory bowel disease: 1 in 500 (NIAID); 300,000 people to 500,000 people NIDDK
Prevalance Rate of Inflammatory bowel disease: approx 1 in 500 or 0.20% or 544,000 people in USA [about data]
Prevalance of Inflammatory bowel disease:
300,000 to 500,000 people (Source: excerpt from Digestive Diseases Statistics: NIDDK)
Incidence of Inflammatory bowel disease: 2 to 6 new cases per 100,000 people (Source: excerpt from Digestive Diseases Statistics: NIDDK)
How serious is Inflammatory bowel disease?
Deaths for Inflammatory bowel disease: fewer than 1,000 deaths in the USA 1987 (Digestive diseases in the United States: Epidemiology and Impact – NIH Publication No. 94-1447, US Government Printing Office, NIDDK, 1994)
What causes Inflammatory bowel disease?
Causes of Inflammatory bowel disease: see causes of Inflammatory bowel disease
What are the symptoms of Inflammatory bowel disease?
Symptoms of Inflammatory bowel disease:
see symptoms of Inflammatory bowel disease
Inflammatory bowel disease: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Inflammatory bowel disease.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Inflammatory bowel disease.
How is it treated?
Doctors and Medical Specialists for Inflammatory bowel disease: General practitioner, Primary care physician, Gastroenterologist, General surgeon, Hematologist, Immunologist, Oncologist, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Oncology surgeon, Genetic diseases specialist, Genetic counselor, Medical oncologist, Gastroeneterology surgeon, Anaesthetist, Rheumatologist, Ophthalmogist, Dermatologist
;
see also doctors and medical specialists for Inflammatory bowel disease.
Treatments for Inflammatory bowel disease:
see treatments for Inflammatory bowel disease
Research for Inflammatory bowel disease:
see research for Inflammatory bowel disease
Society issues for Inflammatory bowel disease
Hospitalizations for Inflammatory bowel disease: 100,000 in the USA 1987 (Digestive diseases in the United States: Epidemiology and Impact – NIH Publication No. 94-1447, US Government Printing Office, NIDDK, 1994)
Hospitalization statistics for Inflammatory bowel disease:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Inflammatory bowel disease:
- 0.17% (21,634) of hospital consultant episodes were for crohn’s disease in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 82% of hospital consultant episodes for crohn’s disease required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 42% of hospital consultant episodes for crohn’s disease were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 58% of hospital consultant episodes for crohn’s disease were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 35% of hospital consultant episodes for crohn’s disease required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 9.6 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for crohn’s disease in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 6 days was the median length of stay in hospitals for crohn’s disease in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Hospitalizations for Inflammatory bowel disease: 100,000 (64 percent for Crohn's
disease) (Source: excerpt from
Digestive Diseases Statistics: NIDDK)
Physician office visits for Inflammatory bowel disease: 700,000 in the USA 1987 (Digestive diseases in the United States: Epidemiology and Impact – NIH Publication No. 94-1447, US Government Printing Office, NIDDK, 1994)
Physician office visits for Inflammatory bowel disease: 700,000 (Source: excerpt from
Digestive Diseases Statistics: NIDDK)
Disability from Inflammatory bowel disease: 119,000 in the USA 1983-87 (Digestive diseases in the United States: Epidemiology and Impact – NIH Publication No. 94-1447, US Government Printing Office, NIDDK, 1994)
Disability from Inflammatory bowel disease: 119,000 people (1983-87)
(Source: excerpt from
Digestive Diseases Statistics: NIDDK)
Organs Affected by Inflammatory bowel disease:
Organs and body systems related to Inflammatory bowel disease include:
Name and Aliases of Inflammatory bowel disease
Main name of condition: Inflammatory bowel disease
Other names or spellings for Inflammatory bowel disease:
IBD
Colitis
Source - WordNet 2.1
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