How to Use inflammatory bowel disease in a Sentence

inflammatory bowel disease

noun
  • The inflammatory bowel disease flare-up left him more or less bedridden for six weeks.
    Lisa Mulcahy, Men's Health, 20 Sep. 2022
  • That includes some of the latest drugs for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
    Markham Heid, Time, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Crohn's disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease that can affect any part of the digestive tract.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2022
  • At 24, she is diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, a form of inflammatory bowel disease that has no cure.
    Anna Altman, The New Republic, 17 Feb. 2021
  • The deal expands on a partnership that the two companies announced in 2016 to treat C. diff and inflammatory bowel disease.
    BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2021
  • Away from the field, Diekman dotes on his 9-month-old daughter, Palmer, and he and his wife, Amanda, are dedicated to helping those with inflammatory bowel diseases.
    Susan Slusser, SFChronicle.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Too much fiber can be bad for people with certain health conditions — such as inflammatory bowel disease — in which case, juice is a better option.
    Lauren Corona, chicagotribune.com, 14 Apr. 2021
  • People with inflammatory bowel diseases such as colitis are at higher risk for clots, with some research showing the risk is as much as three times higher.
    John Fauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2019
  • Late last year, another study in mice raised concerns that Allura Red dye could increase the risk of inflammatory bowel disease.
    Julie Creswell, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2023
  • People with inflammatory bowel disease will soon be asked to help answer that question.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2019
  • In addition to the cancer, the Texas native was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, which is an inflammatory bowel disease.
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Could hookworm therapy be the next big thing for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)?
    Sarah Sloat, Health, 26 July 2023
  • Microplastics are more abundant in the feces of those with inflammatory bowel disease.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
  • At present, there does not actually appear to be any link between inflammatory bowel disease and isotretinoin.
    Deanna Pai, Allure, 3 Feb. 2023
  • More scores are on the horizon: Khera and his team showed that such tests can also be done for atrial fibrillation, inflammatory bowel disease, breast cancer and obesity.
    Jeanne Erdmann, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2020
  • In his senior year of high school, he was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, a chronic inflammatory bowel disease, and underwent surgery.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2019
  • That ‘off-the-shelf’ approach could be crucial for making the therapy more accessible to the millions of people with inflammatory bowel disease.
    Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Few people know that better than Fitzgerald, who was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease, an inflammatory bowel disease, in the seventh grade.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Up to 39 percent of patients with an inflammatory bowel disease develop arthritis in some form.
    Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2020
  • When autophagy’s essential genes are mutated and the process goes wrong, diseases from cancer to inflammatory bowel disease to Parkinson’s can result.
    Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 14 June 2018
  • Those with risk factors like inflammatory bowel disease, certain types of polyps, and/or family history may need to be screened sooner.
    Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Ulcerative colitis is a type of inflammatory bowel disease that causes ulcers and sores in the lower quarter to third of your digestive tract.
    Kathryn Watson, SELF, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Rubinberg has Crohn’s disease, a type of inflammatory bowel disease estimated to affect more than half a million people in the United States.
    Elena Ferrarin, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Researchers have found that inflammatory bowel disease patients in Japan have more symptoms in winter than during other seasons.
    Margherita T. Cantorna, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Oh, inflammatory bowel disease, what could anyone possibly have done to deserve you?
    Korin Miller, SELF, 12 Nov. 2018
  • Over the past hundred years, this protective strain—now known as E. coli Nissle—has been used as a probiotic to promote gut health and treat gastrointestinal conditions like inflammatory bowel disease.
    WIRED, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease that causes chronic inflammation of the GI tract.
    Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Joshi’s team is developing biofilms that could protect the gut lining, which erodes in people with inflammatory bowel disease, creating painful ulcers.
    Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 18 Feb. 2020
  • The family had no history of inflammatory bowel disease, but Kurt and Judi were tested for genetic markers as well.
    Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 10 Oct. 2019
  • This might have been the case for Paregol, who reportedly battled Crohn’s disease, a type of chronic, inflammatory bowel disease, and was on medication for it, according to the Washington Post.
    Amanda MacMillan, Health.com, 24 Oct. 2019

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