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A new study has found one in ten people with inflammatory bowel disease visited their doctor with symptoms five years before receiving a diagnosis.

Inflammatory bowel disease is a term used to describe two main conditions, ulcerative colitis and Crohn鈥檚 disease, and is thought to affect around 300,000 people in the UK. The condition causes inflammation in the gut, and can trigger symptoms such as diarrhoea, abdominal pain and rectal bleeding.

In the , published in the Journal of Crohn鈥檚 and Colitis, researchers at St George’s, University of London, Imperial College London, University College London and King鈥檚 College London, studied the records of 19,000 people in England with ulcerative colitis and Crohn鈥檚 disease between 1998-2016.

The results revealed some patients experienced gastrointestinal symptoms up to 10 years before they were diagnosed, while 10 per cent of patients visited their doctor with symptoms five years before being diagnosed. The condition is diagnosed through a variety of blood and stool tests, as well as examinations.

The team explained the delayed diagnosis may be due to the symptoms being mistaken for other conditions, such as irritable bowel syndrome and haemorrhoids.

This study benefited from 蓝莓视频 investment through聽 蓝莓视频 Northwest London Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) and the School for Public Health, with support from the Imperial 蓝莓视频 Biomedical Research Centre.

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