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Risk of Surgery for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Has Decreased Over Time: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Population-Based Studies

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The risk of intestinal surgery among patients with IBD has decreased over the past 6 decades, and the trend in risk of surgery over time was analyzed by meta-regression using mixed-effect models.
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This article is published in Gastroenterology.The article was published on 2013-11-01. It has received 623 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Inflammatory bowel disease & Population.

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Phase angle through electrical bioimpedance as a predictor of cellularity in inflammatory bowel disease

TL;DR: Phase angle through electrical bioimpedance as a predictor of cellularity in inflammatory bowel disease and its role in disease progression is investigated.
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The risk of subsequent surgery following bowel resection for Crohn's disease in a national cohort of 19 207 patients

TL;DR: Further surgery following an index operation is common in Crohn's disease and this risk was particularly seen in patients with perianal disease, EIMs and those who underwent index surgery in a high-volume centre.
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Appropriateness of Medical and Surgical Treatments for Chronic Pouchitis Using RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Methodology

TL;DR: Advice for clinicians on the appropriateness of medical and surgical treatments in chronic pouchitis is provided, with biologics are appropriate in all patients except in asymptomatic patients with no evidence of complications.
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Gastrointestinal Disorders: Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Irritable Bowel Syndrome

TL;DR: In this article , the authors focus on two high impact GI diseases, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), illustrating the role of psychological functioning in disease course and clinical outcomes, as well as the contribution of psychological care to the management of these conditions.
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Ethnicity influences phenotype and clinical outcomes: Comparing a South American with a North American inflammatory bowel disease cohort

TL;DR: In this article , the authors performed an exploratory analysis of the databases of Chilean and North American IBD patients to compare the clinical phenotypes between the cohorts and employed an unsupervised machine learning approach using principal component analysis, uniform manifold approximation, and projection, among others, for each disease.
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