Individuals with ulcerative colitis have an increased risk for certain types of cancer based on age, instead of treatment type.

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Ulcerative colitis is an inflammatory bowel disease in which the inner lining of the large intestine and rectum become inflamed. It is characterized by diarrhea, abdominal pain and blood in the stool.

Analysis of a nationwide cohort of older Swedish adults shows that most of the drugs once thought to trigger microscopic colitis actually don’t increase the risk.

Background The development of IBD is known to involve early immunological alterations, but our understanding of the changes in antibody epitope repertoires moving from the prediagnostic phase towards ...

The shell of Camellia oleifera fruits is a byproduct of the C. oleifera industry that is insufficiently utilized. Herein, a novel polysaccharide (CFP-A) was purified from C. oleifera fruit shells, and ...

Extraintestinal complications — those that exist outside the intestines — are common in people with ulcerative colitis.

Introduction Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) characterised by episodes of symptoms including rectal bleeding, increased stool frequency and abdominal pain, ...

A fecal microbiota transplant involves placing specially prepared fecal matter from a healthy donor into the colon of someone with a digestive condition like UC.

The question on whether probiotics can maintain remission in people with ulcerative colitis remains unanswered. There were no serious adverse events when probiotics were compared with placebo. However ...

Ulcerative colitis (UC) affects about 900,000 people in the United States. In any single year, about 20 percent of these people have moderate disease activity and 1 to 2 percent have severe ...