Studies Explore Racial Disparities in IBD Symptoms and Therapy
Monday, October 22, 2012 - 08:02
in Health & Medicine
Three separate studies presented today at the American College of Gastroenterology's (ACG) 77th Annual Scientific meeting in Las Vegas help to advance understanding of the differences between African American and Caucasian patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and provide clinicians with new insight on how racial disparities involving disease characteristics, infliximab use, and fistulizing Crohn's disease may impact their patients--and their decisions on how best to manage the disease.