Individuals with IBD, especially CD, have an increased risk for myocardial infarction, ischemic heart disease, cerebrovascular accident, and major adverse cardiovascular events.

The ACG has published new health maintenance recommendations for patients with IBD, which include appropriate vaccinations, ...

Background The development of IBD is known to involve early immunological alterations, but our understanding of the changes ...

Yale Medicine has more on inflammatory bowel disease. SOURCES: Wolters Kluwer Health, news release, June 4, 2025; Gastroenterology Nursing, May/June 2025 ...

Around 20% of people with IBD have a close relative, such as a parent or sibling, who has had the same disease at some point. Scientists have identified more than 200 genetic mutations linked to ...

The most popular TikTok videos related to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have millions of views – but very low scores for quality of medical information, reports a study in the May/June issue ...

Recently, the first N-ECCO Consensus Statements supported contemporary IBD nursing practice. 4 The IBD nurse assessed understanding of disease by patients and families, provided education to patients ...

Global maps depicting epidemiologic stages of IBD evolution from 1950 to 2024. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08940-0 ...

IBD, which includes Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, causes inflammation in the digestive tract, leading to symptoms like abdominal pain, diarrhea, fatigue, and weight loss.

IBD is a classification of bowel diseases that include ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD). Doctors most often diagnose IBD in people under 35 years old.

1 Introduction Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic idiopathic inflammation disease of the gastrointestinal tract, encompassing ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD) (1).