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MONDAY, November 9, 2020 – Life expectancy has increased for individuals with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), but there is still a gap in life expectancy for those with and without IBD, according to a study published online on the 9th. November in CMAJ, the journal of the Canadian Medical Association.
In an effort to examine trends in life expectancy and health-adjusted life expectancy in people with and without IBD, M. Ellen Kuenzig, Ph.D., of the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children, and colleagues conducted a retrospective cohort study on the population data from administrative, demographic and health surveys.
The researchers observed an increase in life expectancy in IBD patients between 1996 and 2011 (from 75.5 to 78.4 years for women; from 72.2 to 75.5 years for men). Health-adjusted life expectancy decreased among men by 3.9 years between 1996 and 2008. Among women with IBD, there was no statistically significant change in health-adjusted life expectancy . Compared to those without IBD, those with IBD had a shorter life expectancy and a health-appropriate life expectancy. In people with and without IBD, the differences in life expectancy ranged from 6.6 to 8.1 years for women and 5.0 to 6.1 years for men; differences in health-adjusted life expectancy ranged from 9.5 to 13.5 years for women and from 2.6 to 6.7 years for men.
“We found that the gap in health-adjusted life expectancy between those with and without IBD was large when assessing both general well-being and the effect of pain,” the authors write.
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