(MENAFN– Costa Rica News) Dr. Marta Calvo, a digestive system specialist at Puerta de Hierro Hospital in Madrid, reported that the onset of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) typically occurs between the ages of 15 and 30. However, she warned of an increase in cases of the condition in the elderly and children.
“It is expected that, by 2030, one in every hundred people will have inflammatory bowel disease. Currently, there has been an increase in the condition in women, but also in the elderly and children, which is not the norm,” the doctor indicated.
Calvo explained that the change in diagnosis is due, among other factors, to current diet and lifestyle choices:“This disease has always been more common in industrialized countries than in those that were less developed in this regard,” Calvo noted.
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