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. 2021 May 6;21(1):204.
doi: 10.1186/s12876-021-01745-1.

The emerging epidemic of inflammatory bowel disease in Asia and Iran by 2035: A modeling study

Meysam Olfatifar  1 , Mohammad Reza Zali  2 , Mohamad Amin Pourhoseingholi  1 , Hedieh Balaii  3 , Shaghayegh Baradaran Ghavami  3 , Maria Ivanchuk  4 , Pavlo Ivanchuk  5 , Saeed Hashemi Nazari  6 , Shabnam Shahrokh  1 , Siamak Sabour  7   8 , Soheila Khodakarim  9 , Hamid Asadzadeh Aghdaei  10 , Pejman Rohani  11 , Gholamhossein Mehralian  12
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The emerging epidemic of inflammatory bowel disease in Asia and Iran by 2035: A modeling study

Meysam Olfatifar et al. BMC Gastroenterol. .

Abstract

Background: The projection studies are imperative to satisfy demands for health care systems and proper response to the public health problems such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

Methods: To accomplish this, we established an illness-death model based on available data to project the future prevalence of IBD in Asia, Iran in particular, separately from 2017 to 2035. We applied two deterministic and stochastic approaches.

Results: In 2035, as compared to 2020, we expected a 2.5-fold rise in prevalence for Iran with 69 thousand cases, a 2.3-fold increment for North Africa and the Middle East with 220 thousand cases, quadrupling of the prevalence for India with 2.2 million cases, a 1.5-fold increase for East Asia region with 4.5 million cases, and a 1.6-fold elevation in prevalence for high-income Asia-Pacific and Southeast Asia regions with 183 and 199 thousand cases respectively.

Conclusions: Our results showed an emerging epidemic for the prevalence of IBD in Asia regions and/or countries. Hence, we suggest the need for immediate action to control this increasing trend in Asia and Iran. However, we were virtually unable to use information about age groups, gender, and other factors influencing the evolution of IBD in our model due to lack of access to reliable data.

Keywords: Asia regions; Emergency action; Inflammatory Bowel Disease; Iran; Projection.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare for this study.

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Illness death model
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Asia region (country) map
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Prevalent IBD cases in Iran and North Africa and Middle East from 2017–2035
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Prevalent IBD cases in South Asia and East Asia from 2017–2035
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Prevalent IBD cases in Southeast Asia and High-income Asia–Pacific from 2017–2035
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