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IBD highlights from Crohn’s & Colitis Congress 2019
This year at the Crohn’s & Colitis Congress, data presented on ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease focused on assessing and improving patient care and quality of life.
Healio Gastroenterology and Liver Disease has compiled the following reports that include presentations on how patients perceive that they’re receiving suboptimal preventive care during consultations, as well as a survey that detailed the fatigue and emotional burden women with IBD exhibit.
IBD prevalence: The narrative is not yet written
Though it often seems the writing is on the wall for the incidence and prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease, an expert at Crohn’s & Colitis Congress argued that the more discovered about environmental impact and the more interventions implemented, the rising incidence and prevalence could be stemmed.
“IBD is a modern disease of modern times,” Gilaad Kaplan, MD, MPH, FRCPC, of the University of Calgary, said during his presentation. READ MORE.
Patients with IBD receive suboptimal preventive care consultations
Despite existing guidelines for preventive care in patients with inflammatory bowel disease, providers fell short of expectations in consultations at a tertiary care center, according to a presenter at the Crohn’s & Colitis Congress.
“Many of our IBD patients are at higher risk of things like infections, specific malignancies, metabolic bone disease and mental health disorders not only as a product of the disease itself, but also the therapies employed. What’s important to remember about these is many of them are preventable,” Amanda Lynn, MD, a gastroenterology fellow at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, said during her presentation. READ MORE.
VIDEO: Veteran population may skew mental health assessments in IBD
In this exclusive video perspective from Crohn’s & Colitis Congress 2019, Tiffany H. Taft, PsyD, a clinical psychologist at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, discusses results of a longitudinal study that demonstrated that depression and anxiety symptoms significantly varied by sex, dietary modifications and work status in veterans with inflammatory bowel disease. READ MORE.
VIDEO: Survey reveals the emotional burden, fatigue of IBD among women
In this exclusive video perspective from Crohn’s & Colitis Congress 2019, Marla Dubinsky, MD, and Laurie Keefer, PhD, both of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, discuss how ulcerative colitis impacts women with the disease and how physicians can better care for their patients’ emotional wellbeing.
Dubinsky and Keefer are both part of the advisory panel for the UC Narrative program, which was created by Pfizer to learn more about the lives of people with UC. One of the program’s first initiatives was an international survey. READ MORE.
VIDEO: Committee addresses step therapy, cannabis use in IBD
In this exclusive video from Crohn’s & Colitis Congress 2019, David T. Rubin, MD, AGAF, section chief of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, and co-director of the Digestive Diseases Center at the University of Chicago Medicine, discusses some of the initiatives the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation’s Government and Industry Affairs Committee worked on while at the meeting.
“Some of the different initiatives [the] organization and [the] committee are working on are really important for patients and providers to know about,” Rubin, who is also an organizing committee co-chair of the Crohn’s & Colitis Congress, told Healio Gastroenterology and Liver Disease. READ MORE.
Malnutrition common in IBD: Screen early, often to best care for patients
Malnutrition in patients with inflammatory bowel disease poses risks for disease progression and surgical complications, but careful screening and proactive nutrition management can help, according to an expert presenting at the Crohn’s and Colitis Congress 2019.
“How do you know if your patient is at nutrition risk and would benefit from a referral to a dietitian? We should be screening our patients,” Kelly Issokson, MS, RD, CNSC, from Cedars Sinai, said during her presentation. “All you need to do is ask them two simple questions: have you lost weight recently without trying and are you eating less because of a poor appetite. If they say ‘Yes’ to any of those questions, you really should be referring to a dietitian.” READ MORE.
VIDEO: GI psychologists offer holistic approach to IBD care
In this exclusive video from the Crohn’s and Colitis Congress 2019, Megan E. Riehl, PsyD, of Michigan Medicine discusses what GI psychologists can add to a multidisciplinary approach to treating patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
“We talk about the role of [a] psychologist on these multidisciplinary teams as bringing about aspects of care for emotional wellbeing,” she told Healio Gastroenterology and Liver Disease. READ MORE.