How to Use inflammatory bowel disease in a Sentence

inflammatory bowel disease

noun
  • For a child with inflammatory bowel disease, this should still be the case!
    — Philly.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • The inflammatory bowel disease flare-up left him more or less bedridden for six weeks.
    — Lisa Mulcahy, Men's Health, 20 Sep. 2022
  • In red wolves, inflammatory bowel disease is common and is not curable.
    — Megan Becka, cleveland.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Like Crohn's, though, the treatment for the inflammatory bowel disease — steroids — could make your body gain weight.
    — Locke Hughes, Redbook, 15 Apr. 2019
  • People with inflammatory bowel disease will soon be asked to help answer that question.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Crohn's disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease that can affect any part of the digestive tract.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2022
  • At present, there does not actually appear to be any link between inflammatory bowel disease and isotretinoin.
    — Deanna Pai, Allure, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Too much fiber can be bad for people with certain health conditions — such as inflammatory bowel disease — in which case, juice is a better option.
    — Lauren Corona, chicagotribune.com, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Microplastics are more abundant in the feces of those with inflammatory bowel disease.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
  • The same is true for the report’s discussions of inflammatory bowel disease, childhood cancer and autism.
    — Lisa Jarvis, Mercury News, 6 June 2025
  • People with inflammatory bowel diseases such as colitis are at higher risk for clots, with some research showing the risk is as much as three times higher.
    — John Fauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2019
  • At 24, she is diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, a form of inflammatory bowel disease that has no cure.
    — Anna Altman, The New Republic, 17 Feb. 2021
  • By detecting these subtle changes, a smart pill may provide early clues about conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Her mindset changed when her cousin reached out to her around that time to say he was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, a different inflammatory bowel disease.
    — Alice Oglethorpe, SELF, 28 May 2025
  • Those with risk factors like inflammatory bowel disease, certain types of polyps, and/or family history may need to be screened sooner.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 30 Jan. 2024
  • For many people with inflammatory bowel disease, biologic drugs have been life-changing.
    — Amy Sue Harper, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Up to 39 percent of patients with an inflammatory bowel disease develop arthritis in some form.
    — Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Crohn’s disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
    — Caroline C. Boyle, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Crohn's disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
    — Chelsea Rae Bourgeois, Health, 30 May 2025
  • That includes some of the latest drugs for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
    — Markham Heid, Time, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Colitis is one form of inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, and there weren’t a lot of treatment options at the time.
    — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Late last year, another study in mice raised concerns that Allura Red dye could increase the risk of inflammatory bowel disease.
    — Julie Creswell, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2023
  • In his senior year of high school, he was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, a chronic inflammatory bowel disease, and underwent surgery.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2019
  • The first in our family to be diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), this rocked our world.
    — Diane Sparacio, Health, 16 Apr. 2025
  • But the results suggest the capsule could eventually be used in people to find signs of ulcers, inflammatory bowel disease or even colon cancer, the researchers said.
    — Carla K. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2018
  • Could hookworm therapy be the next big thing for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)?
    — Sarah Sloat, Health, 26 July 2023
  • But the results suggest the capsule could eventually be used in people to find signs of ulcers, inflammatory bowel disease, or even colon cancer, the researchers said.
    — Carla K. Johnson, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2018
  • Ulcerative colitis is a type of inflammatory bowel disease that causes ulcers and sores in the lower quarter to third of your digestive tract.
    — Kathryn Watson, SELF, 17 Nov. 2021
  • For inflammatory bowel disease, though, the success rate is much lower, only 25 to 30 percent.
    — Kim Campbell Thornton, sacbee, 25 Apr. 2018
  • That ‘off-the-shelf’ approach could be crucial for making the therapy more accessible to the millions of people with inflammatory bowel disease.
    — Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2022

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