Updated bone mineral density status in Saudi patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

World J Gastroenterol · 2020 · PMC7504241 · PMID 32994692

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an increasing trendno p-value reported

ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTS Research background Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is showing an increasing trend in newly industrialized countries worldwide, including Saudi Arabia.

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a decreasing trendno p-value reported

Based on our results, the burden of reduced BMD among adult Saudi patients with IBD is still high but is showing a decreasing trend compared to the results of a retrospective study conducted between 2001 and 2008 by Ismail et al[ 16 ] on 95 Saudi patients with IBD; osteopenia burden was 48.6% and 32.6%, and osteoporosis burden was 55.8% and 27.5% among CD and UC patients, respectively.

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