Chiara Miglioretto

May 19, 2024 | insightplus.mja.com.au | Chiara Miglioretto

The journey for people with inflammatory bowel disease can be lonely and uncertain, but strategies and support are available for patients and their health practitioners. In 2019, global estimated prevalence rates of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) placed Australia in the top five regions. The Australian age-standardised prevalence rate of IBD has increased from 0.09% in 1990 to 0.15% in 2019. This gives an estimated crude prevalence of 653 cases per 100 000.

Oct 8, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Chiara Miglioretto |Eleanor Beck |Kelly Lambert |Chiara Miglioretto MND

INTRODUCTION Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) describes two idiopathic chronic diseases, Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis which are unpredictable in their pattern of relapse.1 IBD is now the fourth leading cause of years of healthy life lost to disability globally.1 The goal of medical therapy is remission, with medications targeting the immune system and provided in a stepped approach based on severity.2 However, the plethora of gastrointestinal symptoms that occur despite the...