Rupa Banerjee, Partha Pal, Rajendra Patel, Shubhankar Godbole, Akshay Komawar, Shirisha Mudigonda, Yamunasrivalli Akki, Arvind Gaddam, Nissi Prakash Pasula, Sumitamol Joseph, Sadhana Valluari, Dhanush Mekala, Musab Khalil, Swathi Kanaganti, Anuradha Sekaran, Duvvuru Nageshwar Reddy, Simon P L Travis
BACKGROUND: Traditionally, infectious diarrhoea has been the major cause of lower GI symptoms across the developing world. Increasing urbanization has been implicated for the rising IBD cases despite very limited data in the rural setting. We aimed to assess the relative proportion of IBD and other intestinal diseases among symptomatic patients from rural and urban India. METHODS: Patients with lower GI symptoms attending urban out-patient clinics and/or specially conducted mobile rural health camps were evaluated using basic laboratory parameters, abdominal ultrasound and colonoscopy...
December 2023: Lancet Reg Health Southeast Asia