What might be the cause for the emerging inflammatory bowel disease in Saudi outpatients?

In the last decade, a series of findings made me suspect that dietary chemicals like saccharin and sucralose may have played an important causative role in IBD through their inhibition of gut bacteria and the resultant impaired inactivation of digestive proteases and excessive damage of the mucus la...

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Published inSaudi journal of gastroenterology Vol. 20; no. 1; p. 75
Main Author Qin, Xiaofa
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published India Medknow Publications 01.01.2014
Medknow Publications and Media Pvt. Ltd
Medknow Publications & Media Pvt. Ltd
Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd
Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
Subjects
Care and treatment
Diagnosis
Female
Health aspects
Humans
Inflammatory bowel disease
Inflammatory bowel diseases
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases - epidemiology
Letter to Editor
Male
Medical research
Outpatients
Outpatients - statistics & numerical data
Risk factors
Saudi Arabia
Canada
Singapore
Australia
United States > US
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Summary:In the last decade, a series of findings made me suspect that dietary chemicals like saccharin and sucralose may have played an important causative role in IBD through their inhibition of gut bacteria and the resultant impaired inactivation of digestive proteases and excessive damage of the mucus layer and the underlying gut tissue.
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ISSN:1319-3767
1998-4049
DOI:10.4103/1319-3767.126329