MARCH 4, 2020

Older Age and IBD: Mortality and Later-Onset Disease

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Sasha Taleban, MD
An associate professor and the director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program at the University of Arizona College of Medicine–Tucson, highlights recent research examining mortality rates in people with adult- or elderly-onset Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

 

Study: Olén O, Askling J, Sachs MC, et al. Mortality in adult-onset and elderly-onset IBD: a nationwide register-based cohort study 1964-2014. Gut 2019;9:1-9; http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1136/