background there are few reports from iran about the epidemiology and clinical features of inflammatory bowel disease (ibd). this study aims to determine the epide­miologic profile and clinical features of ibd in northwest iran referral centers. methods in a cross-sectional setting, we evaluated 200 patients with definitive diagno­ses of ibd who referred to tabriz educational hospitals during t...

background inflammatory bowel diseases (ibd) are debilitating diseases that lead to a variety of problems in a patient's daily life and are a huge burden for the health care system. since this group of diseases are multifactorial and complex, long-term longitudinal studies are clearly needed to understand them better. a population-based registry (ibd-far) has been established in fars, a souther...