A study of the prevalence and clinical pattern of non-specific ulcerative colitis in northern India.

Inflammatory Bowel Disease in the Rural Indian Subcontinent: a Survey of Patients Attending Mission Hospitals

“…Epi demiological reports from India have largely focused on ulcerative colitis. In these studies the incidence appears to be lower than that found in Western Europe and North Amer ica [1,2], Studies in Britain have also sug gested that inflammatory bowel disease may be less common in Asian migrants [11. 12], In developing countries most bloody diar rhoea has an infectious aetiology and as in this series is often due to intestinal amoebiasis or typhoid.…”

Epidemiology of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in India: The Great Shift East

“…rarity of IBD in India has been questioned more than 50 years back, a lack of good epidemiological studies could not reconfirm this astute observation [2] . The study of IBD epidemiology in these regions has been hampered by several factors including a lack of universal accessibility to health care, hospital-based studies, the absence of standardized case definitions, relevant databases, and registries with appropriate validation, and prospective data collection.…”

Drug prescribing pattern in ulcerative colitis in a tertiary care hospital: an observational study

“…This was more when compared to that reported by Tandon et al (47.6%). 9 Increase in ESR levels was seen 86.4% and hypoalbuminemia in 52.1% patients .…”

“…8 In our study, a slight male predominance was seen (1.18:1) which is in concordance with other Indian studies. 7,9,10 However, western studies have not shown any gender predominance in the occurrence of ulcerative colitis. 8 The common presenting symptoms of the patients in our study were passage of bloody stools (90%) and diarrhea (86.4%).…”