M1131 Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease in a Latin-American Population from Buenos Aires. Multicenter Study

Do Parents and Children Agree? Quality‐of‐Life Assessment of Children With Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Their Parents

“…In this specific sample, patients also had private medical insurance and had a predominantly inactive disease status, which may influence the generalizability of the results. In Argentina, as in most developing countries, the prevalence of UC is greater than that of CD, and that is reflected in our sample (39). We cannot determine whether these results can be extended to other Latin American populations.…”

“…In Argentina, as in most developing countries, the prevalence of UC is greater than that of CD, and that is reflected in our sample (39). As mentioned, the present study served as a pilot examination of the concordance between parent-proxy and patient ratings on a disease-specific QOL measure.…”

Epidemiology of inflammatory bowel disease in Mexico and Colombia: Analysis of health databases, mathematical modelling and a case-series study

“…[50]One study found a higher prevalence of left-sided colitis, higher mortality, and higher usage of biological agents in Mexican population than in Mexican-American population, supporting the role of environmental factors on clinical characteristics of IBD. [24] The larger case-series in LAC Countries are from 1946 to date are from Argentina [14,51,52], Barbados [13], Brazil [14,[53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65], Chile [66][67][68], Cuba [69], Peru [70,71], Puerto Rico [72][73][74][75] and Uruguay. [76][77][78] Most CD localizations were ileal-colonic and CD behavior was mostly inflammatory, followed by penetrant or stenotic.…”