Dementia May Develop 7 Years Earlier for Adults with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Thursday, June 25, 2020 - 12:50 in Health & Medicine

Older adults with chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract may develop dementia more than seven years earlier than those without the condition, according to a new study by researchers at UC San Francisco and Taipei Veterans General Hospital in Taiwan. A review of nearly 19,200 Taiwanese patients found that those with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) […]

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