Inflammatory Bowel Disease

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Older patients with IBD frequently have impaired functioning and should be assessed for signs of frailty, researchers say.

The odds of diagnosis with inflammatory bowel disease in seniors rise with each recent course of antibiotics, a new study has found.

Patients using less than 5 mg of prenisolone per day to treat inflammatory disease had nearly double the odds of developing cardiovascular disease or experiencing an adverse heart or vascular event.

Regular oral steroid use in diseases such as arthritis can have an outsize effect on hypertension, investigators say.

Clinicians should have a low threshold to screen for chronic diseases and conditions linked to rheumatoid arthritis, say researchers.

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Elderly at high risk for thiopurine side effects in IBD treatment … Stroke incidence rates decline among older adults … FODMAPs diet eases symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease

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