Patients undergoing endoscopic surveillance for BO suffer anxiety and have impaired quality of life. As trust in their physicians is correlated with receiving sufficient BO information, we surmise that ensuring BO patients understand their condition is likely to improve quality of life, anxiety and depression.

Increased enterocyte ferritin expression may promote iron deficiency in CD and this effect seems to be dependent upon TNF-alpha expression in gut lymphocytes.

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