TITLE:
The epidemiology and prevalence of Ulcerative colitis in the South of India
AUTHORS:
Sivaram Gunisetty, Santosh Kumar Tiwari, Avinash Bardia, Meka Phanibhushan, Vishnupriya Satti, Mohammed Aejaz Habeeb, Aleem Ahmed Khan
KEYWORDS:
Ulcerative Colitis; Epidemiology; Prevalence; South India
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Immunology,
Vol.2 No.4,
December
31,
2012
ABSTRACT: Ulcerative colitis is considered frequent in majority of European and North American population and exceptional in most of the developing Asian countries. There is a dearth of reported data from South India on the incidence of the disease and its prevalence. Hence the present study was designed to estimate the prevalence of ulcerative colitis in a tertiary care hospital of Hyderabad, South India. The study population consisted of 157 Ulcerative colitis and 204 healthy subjects. All subjects were interviewed by means of a questionnaire for general demographical details and socioeconomic conditions, health related quality of life and history of UC. Patients were categorized based on disease severity; moderate: 95, and severe: 62 and disease manifestation: 73 (46.5%) pancolitis, 60 (38.2%) left-sided colitis and 24 (15.3%) had proctosigmoiditits. Disease prevalence was high in patients of