Australian gastroenterologists are leading the way with a promising approach to discovering the causes of Crohn’s disease, taking advantage of a unique natural experiment.
With CD rapidly on the rise in Eastern countries, differences between the microbiota of people in the East and the West – both healthy and with IBD – offers the possibility of “finding key aetiological microbial factors”, the study authors led by Dr Lani Prideaux from St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne wrote on their poster at ECCO in Barcelona.
“Everyone’s ultimate hope is to discover the cause of IBD,” Dr Prideaux told Gastroenterology Update. “And we think that the best population to study is one where IBD is emerging. So in the East, Asia, it’s exponentially increasing. In...
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