Incidence of inflammatory bowel disease in patients with ankylosing spondylitis

Ankylosing spondylitis is a long-term inflammatory disease that always affects the spine joints. The association between ankylosing spondylitis and other diseases has been extensively assessed.1 2 Recently a cohort study conducted by Schreiber et al published in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases found that the new-onset cases of inflammatory bowel disease were uncommon in patients with ankylosing spondylitis on secukinumab therapy (1.13%,...