Gastroenterology -Therapeutics & Hepatology

Inflammatory bowel disease

It involves the chronic inflammation of digestive tract. Approximately 1.6 million Americans currently have IBD, a growth of about 200,000 since the last time CCFA reported in 2011. As many as 70,000 new cases of IBD are diagnosed in the United States each year. There may be as many as 80,000 children in the United States with IBD.