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Inflammatory Bowel Disease Etiology: Current Knowledge

  • Justyna Kikut , Nina Konecka , Maciej Ziętek and Małgorzata Szczuko EMAIL logo
From the journal Pteridines

Abstract

Non-specific inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) include Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). Both diseases are characterized by chronic inflammation of unclear etiology. The inflammatory bowel diseases incidence is continuously observed to rise. Colon inflammatory response is a physiological process which occurrence is indispensable as an organisms’ defense reaction. The inflammation may be caused by internal factors associated with body’s cells as well as external factors, such as infections and exposition for inflammatory agents. Until recently, IBD have been classified as autoimmune diseases, today they seem to be associated with gut barrier disorders or dysbiosis. Factors that predispose to inflammatory bowel diseases include: genetic factors, dysbiosis and so called western-type diet, natural components such as gluten and lactose. In addition, the development of the disease is favored by: cigarette smoking, phosphate, nanomolecules, sodium chloride, emulgents, carrageenan, carboxymethylcellulose, pollution, maltodextrin. IBD affects whole the body, causing serious medical consequences. Symptoms like anxiety and chronic stress, that occur commonly, can lead to depressive disorders. Quantitative and qualitative dietary deficiency caused by absorption disorders, may promote the occurrence of osteoporosis and osteopenia. In addition, dysbiosis coexisting with alterations in intestinal permeability can lead to the development of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. IBD medical consequences include also systemic complications, associated with the extra gastrointestinal manifestations’ occurrence.

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Received: 2018-12-17
Accepted: 2018-12-21
Published Online: 2018-12-31
Published in Print: 2018-12-31

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