BACKGROUND Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has been linked to adverse cardiovascular events, but a relation to heart failure (HF) is uncertain. We investigated the IBD-associated risk of HF in a nationwide setting. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 5 436 647 Danish citizens, with no history of IBD or HF, were included on January 1, 1997, and followed up until first hospitalization for HF, death...

BACKGROUND Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) are group of chronic inflammatory illnesses with a remitting and relapsing course that may result in appreciable morbidity and high medical costs secondary to repeated hospitalizations. The study's objectives were to identify the reasons for hospitalization among patients with inflammatory bowel diseases, and compare inpatient courses and readmissio...

Questions: Is there an increased risk of nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) for patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)? Is there an increased risk of NMSC if they receive immunosuppressive therapy? Design: Historical cohort study and nested case-control study. Setting: Data were obtained from the Manitoba Health administrative databases and the Manitoba Cancer Registry. Patients: For the co...

background inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) may begin as early as the first year of life. the objective of the present study was to determine the characteristics and clinical course of children with early-onset ibd. materials and methods the records of patients with ibd admitted to children medical center hospital during 2003-2006 were screened for those with disease onset before the first year...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affects body image, relationships, family planning, fertility and pregnancy outcomes. However, the common misconception that IBD is a contraindication, or serious concern, in pregnancy is essentially a myth. Most patients with IBD can expect to have uneventful pregnancies. We present an overview of the management of IBD during pregnancy, including management in ...

PPARγ is a nuclear receptor that regulates numerous pathways including cytokine expression and immune responses and plays an important role in controlling colon inflammation. We aimed at determining the occurring PPARγ SNPs, at predicting the haplotypes, and at determining the frequency outcome in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients in comparison with healthy controls. We determined genet...

BACKGROUND Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is common in dogs. Despite the known importance of intestinal lymphocytes in its pathogenesis, little is known about the role of peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) in IBD. OBJECTIVES The aims of this study were (1) comparison of PBLs analyzed by flow cytometry (FCM) in IBD dogs and healthy controls and (2) comparison of PBLs in IBD dogs at the time...

BACKGROUND Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD; including ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease) is associated with an increased risk for colorectal cancer (CRC). Chronic mucosal inflammation is a key factor in the onset of carcinogenesis in IBD patients. Although most gene alterations that cause sporadic CRCs also occur in patients with IBD-associated CRC, some gene sequences and mutation frequen...

There has been much interest in detecting genomic identity by descent (IBD) segments from modern dense genetic marker data and in using them to identify human disease susceptibility loci. Here we present a novel Bayesian framework using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) realizations to jointly infer IBD states among multiple individuals not known to be related, together with the allelic typing er...