MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'digestive diseases week'. Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:32:54 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2447729&cid=t_243816_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2FmSTVYgVLaXE%2F A study looking at food poisoning (salmonella and campylobacter) found that people who had one or the other had a higher risk (1.2%) of developing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) than those who never had food poisoning (0.5%). These findings were presented to doctors and researchers at the annual Digestive Diseases Week. Results showed that the risk for developing IBD grew over a 15-year period after having the food poisoning. The researchers, in Denmark, looked at the histories of over 13,000 people who had been treated for either type of food poisoning and compared them with people who had not become ill with either type of infection. IBD is a term that covers two bowel diseases : Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. At this point, researchers don’t know what causes them ... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2447729 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:17 +0100 2447729