January 9, 2012

Canada tops list of countries for inflammatory bowel disease (News Article)


 

A Toronto Star article in the January 5, edition of the daily says "An Alberta researcher has determined that Canada and Europe have the most incidences of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which the report suggests is growing in prevalence.
The global study on the painful disease, conducted by the University of Calgary’s Gilaad G. Kaplan, a gastroenterologist and epidemiologist, was published in Gastroenterology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association.
He says 0.5 per cent of Canadians suffer from some form of IBD." Read the complete article.