High incidence of inflammatory bowel disease in Northern Australia: a prospective community population-based Australian incidence study in the Mackay-Isaac-Whitsunday region
Flanagan, Amanda, Allsopp, Susan M., O'Connor, Sam A., Tobin, Jacinta, Pretorius, Casper, Brown, Ian S., Bell, Sally, and Daveson, A. James M. (2023) High incidence of inflammatory bowel disease in Northern Australia: a prospective community population-based Australian incidence study in the Mackay-Isaac-Whitsunday region. Internal Medicine Journal, 53 (9). pp. 1602-1609.
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Abstract
Background and Aims: To determine the incidence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in the Mackay-Isaac-Whitsunday region in Northern Queensland (−21.14° S) and to allow a comparison with Southern Australian and New Zealand data (Geelong, Australia −38.14° S; Tasmania −41.43° S and −42.88° S (Launceston and Hobart) and Canterbury, New Zealand −43.46 °S).
Design: A prospective observational community population-based IBD study was conducted between 1 June 2017 and 31 May 2018.
Outcome measures: Primary includes the crude annual incidence rate of IBD, Crohn's disease (CD), ulcerative colitis (UC) and inflammatory bowel disease-unclassified (IBDU), while secondary includes disease phenotype and behaviour.
Results: Fifty-six new cases of IBD were identified. Twenty-three were CD, 30 were UC and 3 were IBDU. The crude annual incidence rate per 100 000 for IBD, CD, UC and IBDU were 32.2 (95% confidence interval (CI): 24.78–41.84), 13.23 (95% CI: 8.79–19.90), 17.25 (95% CI: 12.06–24.67) and 1.73 (95% CI: 0.56–5.35). When directly age-standardised to the World Health Organisation Standard Population Distribution, the overall CD, UC and IBDU incidence were 13.19, 17.34 and 1.85 per 100 000, with an overall age-standardised IBD incidence of 32.38.
Conclusions: This is the first study to define the incidence of IBD in a Northern Australian cohort and to allow a comparison between North and Southern Australia. The IBD crude is the highest reported in Australia. Like others, we found a high and low incidence of upper gastrointestinal Crohn's disease and complicated disease at diagnosis respectively, likely reflective of the increased availability and early uptake of endoscopic procedures.
| Item ID: | 77256 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1445-5994 |
| Keywords: | Crohn's disease, Ulcerative Colitis, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Incidence, Australasia, North-South gradient |
| Copyright Information: | © 2022 The Authors. Internal Medicine Journal published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Royal Australasian College of Physicians. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jan 2023 08:49 |
| FoR Codes: | 32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES > 3202 Clinical sciences > 320209 Gastroenterology and hepatology @ 100% |
| SEO Codes: | 20 HEALTH > 2001 Clinical health > 200101 Diagnosis of human diseases and conditions @ 100% |
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