According to recent research, globally, over a million American and 2.5 million European have IBD, and even low-incidence countries and regions (Asia, the Middle East, South America) have shown an increasing incidence. 1,2 IBD patients suffer from disabilities and discrimination that affects work, study and life, jeopardizing their quality of life. 3 The clinical manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease generally lack specificity (eg, abdominal pain, fatigue, diarrhoea, rectal bleeding) and can include extraintestinal manifestations, and even pulmonary CD, making it likely that IBD is confused with
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