Predictors of Severity in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

BACKGROUND: Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), represented by Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), can evolve with disabling symptoms that compromise the patients quality of life. The early identification of severe disease allows a more aggressive therapeutic approach with a lower risk of complications and lower rates of hospitalizations, surgeries and death. The objective of the present study was to identify the variables...