(From left) Prof. Siew NG and Chief Nursing Officer Ms Jessica CHING from the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, CUHK Medicine, and the IBD patient Miss SUM

Abstract

Researchers from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has conducted the world’s first systematic review of the global incidence and prevalence of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) in the 21st century and found a continuous surge in the non-western world, with the incidence in Hong Kong having risen about 30 times in the past 30 years. CUHK’s researchers regard this increase as alarming and think that IBD has emerged as a global health challenge. However, the continual surge also provides unique opportunities to identify the cause of IBD. Results of the systematic review have just been published in the leading medical journal The Lancet and presented in the World Congress of Gastroenterology in Orlando, USA on 16 October 2017.

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