How to Use inflammatory bowel disease in a Sentence

inflammatory bowel disease

noun
  • For a child with inflammatory bowel disease, this should still be the case!
    Philly.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Like Crohn's, though, the treatment for the inflammatory bowel disease — steroids — could make your body gain weight.
    Locke Hughes, Redbook, 17 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • Almost all of those were found to be hazardous to human health, with links to inflammatory bowel disease, cancer, autism, and ADHD.
    By Aryn Baker/lautoka, Fiji , TIME, 3 July 2024
  • 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
  • The researchers also studied a group of mice that was engineered to be at higher risk for colitis, a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
    Jason Lemon, ajc, 28 Nov. 2017
  • 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
  • In red wolves, inflammatory bowel disease is common and is not curable.
    Megan Becka, cleveland.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • But the results suggest the capsule could eventually be used in people to find signs of ulcers, inflammatory bowel disease or even colon cancer, the researchers said.
    Carla K. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2018
  • But the results suggest the capsule could eventually be used in people to find signs of ulcers, inflammatory bowel disease, or even colon cancer, the researchers said.
    Carla K. Johnson, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2018
  • For inflammatory bowel disease, though, the success rate is much lower, only 25 to 30 percent.
    Kim Campbell Thornton, sacbee, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Microplastics are more abundant in the feces of those with inflammatory bowel disease.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
  • Still, neither the stool nor blood test will replace the colonoscopy for high-risk populations, such as those with inflammatory bowel disease, Imperiale said.
    Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Crohn's disease: This is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that causes inflammation of the digestive tract.
    Sunny Sea Gold, Health, 29 June 2024
  • And inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, is no exception.
    Sarah Klein, TIME, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Raman will focus his efforts on developing tests for early detection of chronic diseases, starting with inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndrome, and colon polyps, which is an early sign of colon cancer.
    Kimberly Chin, Axios, 10 Sep. 2024

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