Inflammatory Bowel Disease Yearbook 2003

Gastroenterologists, GI surgeons, internists and family physicians with an interest in IBD, gastroenterology trainees, researchers in the IBD field. Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an increasing problem from a population health point of view, and novel approaches in diagnostics and therapeutics are rapidly evolving. IBD has also emerged as an important example of a complex chronic inflammatory disease where genetics, environmental risk factors, and individual phenotypic expression of disease interact to establish patterns of disease and potential disease etiologies. In fact, the recent description of a gene specific for Crohn's disease NOD2 , the exploration of the role of microbes in disease causation, and the harnessing of microbes therapeutically such as with probiolics have facilitated the emergence of IBD as an important model amongst the chronic inflammatory diseases. This yearbook is the first in an annual series, providing clinicians and scientists with state-of-the-art updates on the hot topics relevant to clinical practice and to IBD research.Bernstein, Charles is the author of 'Inflammatory Bowel Disease Yearbook 2003' with ISBN 9781901346572 and ISBN 1901346579.