Emerging inflammatory bowel disease demographics, phenotype, and treatment in South Asia, South-East Asia, and Middle East: Preliminary findings from the Inflammatory Bowel Disease-Emerging Nations' Consortium.
Rupa BanerjeePartha PalIda Normiha HilmiUday Chand GhoshalDevendra C DesaiMohammed Masudur RahmanUsha DuttaSyed A MohiuddinMunnera Al MohannadiMathew PhilipGanesh N RameshMadunil Anuk NiriellaArjuna P De SilvaHithanadura Janaka de SilvaPises PisespongsaJulajak LimsrivilaiSatimai AniwanMetthananda NawarathneNilesh FernandopulleThan Than AyeNwe NiSameer Al AwadhiNeeraj JoshiPham Thi V NgocTuan V KieuAnh Duong NguyenMurdani AbdullahEzzat AliAhmed ZeidJose D SollanoBismillah SaberiMahmoud OmarMostafa Noor MohsinHafeza AftabTin Moe WaiYogesh M ShastriSujit ChaudhuriFaruque AhmedShobna J BhatiaSimon P L Travisnull nullPublished in: Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology (2022)
The IBD-ENC cohort provides insight into IBD in South-East Asia and the Middle East, but is not yet population based. UC is twice as common as CD, familial disease is uncommon, and rates of surgery are low. Biologic use correlates with per capita GNI.