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A recent study by the IBD Center of the Asian Institute of Gastroenterology (AIG) in Hyderabad, India, shows that prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has increased from 0.1% to over 5% in 16 years in the region.
The study, which was conducted in more than 30,000 participants from various districts of Telangana, suggests that urbanisation has had a role to play in this surge of IBD
The last two decades have seen an increasing incidence and prevalence of IBD in the Asia-Pacific region and that India appeared to be in an accelerated industrialisation phase, with a rapidly increasing IBD incidence, they said in the study.
Twice as many women than men were found to have anaemia in 2021 according to The Lancet Haematology. Anaemia affected almost two billion people in 2021, with Western and Central sub-Saharan Africa revealing the highest prevalence.
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