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12-03-2025 | Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease | Concise Commentary

Concise Commentary: Do Population Migrations Affect the Incidence, Severity, and Outcomes of Inflammatory Bowel Disease?

Authors: Angharad Vernon-Roberts, Andrew S. Day

Published in: Digestive Diseases and Sciences

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A recent systematic review by Youssef et al. [1] provided a comprehensive summary on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) outcomes among immigrant populations that included 50 articles reporting varying levels of data on nine overarching themes, although a clear direction or focus that encapsulated all outcomes was not seen. …

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Misra R, Faiz O, Munkholm P, Burisch J, Arebi N. Epidemiology of inflammatory bowel disease in racial and ethnic migrant groups. World J Gastroenterol. 2018;24:424–437. https://doi.org/10.3748/wjg.v24.i3.424.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral

Kuenzig ME, Benchimol EI. Editorial: migration studies to determine risk and cause of inflammatory bowel disease. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2017;46:465–466. https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.14186.CrossRefPubMed

Shad NS, Shaikh NI, Cunningham SA. Migration spurs changes in the human microbiome: a review. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2024;11:3618–3632. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-023-01813-0.CrossRefPubMed

Title: Concise Commentary: Do Population Migrations Affect the Incidence, Severity, and Outcomes of Inflammatory Bowel Disease?
Authors: Angharad Vernon-Roberts
Andrew S. Day
Publication date: 12-03-2025
Publisher: Springer US
Keywords: Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Ulcerative Colitis
Crohn's Disease
Published in: Digestive Diseases and Sciences
Print ISSN: 0163-2116
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2568
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10620-025-08972-6

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