Emerging patterns of inflammatory bowel disease in sub-Saharan Africa: 175 cases from an IBD network.
Phoebe HodgesOluwafunmilayo AdeniyiSmita DevaniChinenye NwokoOpeyemi OwoseniKwadwo Gyebi Agyenim BoatengAnthony OcanitAbdallah MuhofaNasiru Altine DankiriBabatunde DuduyemiZenahebezu AbayYusuf MusaEileen MicahPissi KabagambeAbate Bane ShewayePreetha ThomasSamuel WanjaraDavid EpsteinGillian WatermeyerHani FathiOlusegun AlatiseMzamo MbelleM Paul KellyNick CroftPublished in: Journal of Crohn's & colitis (2024)
There is a knowledge gap on the epidemiology of inflammatory bowel disease in Africa. To begin to address this issue we formed a case reporting network of practitioners with an interest in inflammatory bowel disease across sub-Saharan Africa. Here we report a series of 175 cases from 12 countries over 2 years.