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[fa icon="calendar'] Sep 17, 2018 10:45:27 PM / by Winter Ninivaggi

Patients with IBD may be at risk of developing other conditions. 

You health starts in your gut. IBD is a term that covers a variety of chronic gastrointestinal conditions including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis and effects millions of people worldwide with increasing prevalence. 

A new study has found that people diagnosed with IBD have significantly higher risk of heart attack, especially in younger patients. (Haridy, 2018)

The large analysis evaluated the medical data for over 17.5 million patients with of 200,000 of which had IBD finding that the risk factor is 23% higher in patients with IBD accounting for all other factors. 

Compared to peers in the same age group who did not have IBD, younger patients had about nine times higher risk of heart attack. "The research does not hypothesize what could be causing this unexpected correlation, but there is certainly a disproportionate amount of younger IBD patients suffering heart attacks. Panhwar suggests, "clinicians should take seriously any symptoms suggestive of heart disease, such as chest pain, in patients with IBD, especially in younger patients." (Haridy, 2018)

Winter Ninivaggi

Written by Winter Ninivaggi

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