{"id":3968,"date":"2015-03-11T10:02:35","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T15:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3968"},"modified":"2015-03-16T10:05:30","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T15:05:30","slug":"younger-immigrants-in-canada-at-higher-risk-of-developing-inflammatory-bowel-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/younger-immigrants-in-canada-at-higher-risk-of-developing-inflammatory-bowel-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Younger immigrants in Canada at higher risk of developing inflammatory bowel disease<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The younger an immigrant is when he or she arrives in Canada, the higher their risk of developing inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) such as Crohn&#8217;s disease and ulcerative colitis according to new research.<\/p>\n<p>The study found that the children of immigrants from some areas of the world have a 14% increased risk of developing IBD per decade spent in Canada adding more evidence that the environment plays an important role in the development of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Canada has some of the highest rates of inflammatory bowel disease in the world with 240,000 Canadians affected. Ontario has a very high rate of \u00a0inflammatory bowel disease (1\/160 people), and the fastest growing group of new diagnoses are children under 10-years-old.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ajg\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/ajg201552a.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>American Journal of Gastroenterology\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>March 10<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Eric Benchimol, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, \u00a0Children&#8217;s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The younger an immigrant is when he or she arrives in Canada, the higher their risk of developing inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) such as Crohn&#8217;s disease and ulcerative colitis according to new research. The study found that the children of immigrants from some areas of the world have a 14% increased risk of developing IBD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2395,975,51,2394,50],"class_list":["post-3968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-bowel-disease","tag-children","tag-health","tag-immmigrant","tag-ontario"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-120","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3969,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968\/revisions\/3969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}