Antibiotic use in older adults linked to inflammatory bowel disease, research suggests
Patients aged 60 years and over who had received five or more courses of antibiotics in five years were 2.3 times more likely to develop inflammatory bowel disease.
After one prescription of antibiotics, older patients were 27% more likely to be diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease
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Use of antibiotics in older patients may be linked with the development of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a study due to be presented at the Digestive Disease Week 2022 conference.
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