Incidence Trends of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in a Southern European Country: A Mirror of the Western World?

Mafalda SantiagoFrancisco StockerPaula MinistroRaquel GonçalvesDiana CarvalhoFrancisco PortelaLuís CorreiaPaula LagoEunice TrindadeCláudia Camila DiasFernando Magro

Published in: Clinical and translational gastroenterology (2022)

The incidence of IBD slightly declined from 2017 to 2019, and it is posed to stabilize in the future. The presented data are of the utmost importance for the characterization of IBD in Southern European countries and the establishment of future health policies in the setting of compounding prevalence in the Western world.

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