The Role of Ethnicity in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammation of the digestive tract which consists ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. The previously recognized as Western countries but later it spreads all over world across every ethnicity. manifestations vary from intestinal to extra-intestinal manifestations. There are two risk factors related incidence IBD: Internal environmental factors. internal factor genetic susceptibility associated with Subject Black ethnic has higher for suffering IBD. Caucasians even have lowest compared other ethnics. course also worse in Hispanic Asians milder course. Immigrants tend IBD native subjects. Further investigations showed that ethnicity carries variable characteristics affect immune activity, barrier integrity, autophagy. All above mentioned will elicit if being unbalanced. Chronic particularly leads Knowledge regarding tendency several ethnics raises awareness initiate earlier preventive measure against