BARCELONA, 15 ( EUROPA PRESS)
inflammatory bowel disease ( IBD) in addition about 2,000 new cases annually in Spain, and experts estimate that currently 15 of every 100,000 Spaniards suffering from Crohn’s disease and about 10 suffer from ulcerative colitis.
data have been released on the occasion of the VII Congress of the Organization European of disease Crohn’s disease and Ulcerative Colitis, which takes place in Barcelona between Thursday and Saturday, and which aims to raise awareness on the allocation of these diseases and improvement in treatment.
La IBD causes a decline in the quality of life of patients with a great physical and psychological impact according to the experts, who will be joining the gastrointestinal effects of these ailments.
For this reason, the European Federation of Crohn’s and Ulcerative Colitis (Efcca) has launched the initiative Join the Fight Against IBD, which had been joined the Confederation of associations of sufferers Crohn’s disease and Ulcerative Colitis of Spain (Accu) and the Spanish working group on Crohn’s disease and Ulcerative Colitis (Geteccu).
The Congress will also serve to demonstrate that it is a chronic, progressive disease and that generate disability, which is why experts vindicate specific units to carry out a comprehensive approach to these diseases.
In the case of the Crohn’s disease, both associations have ensured that 16 per cent of patients are unable to work with a median age of 39 years, while half of them has been entered an average of 24 days in a hospital.
One of every five patients, in addition, has been operated in the past two years, and 40% of the sick has taken over one year to be diagnosed because the symptoms is non-specific and diverse.
