- Title: Registry to study the incidence, phenotype, risk factors and clinical course of inflammatory bowel disease in Zimbabwe
- Participating center and contact:
- InselSpital, Bauchzentrum Bern
- Prof. Dr. med. Benjamin Misselwitz
- benjamin.misselwitz@insel.ch
- Details:
- This non-interventional registry-based study aims at enrolling Zimbabwean IBD patients for long-term follow-up, collect comprehensive data on disease phenotype, severity, complications, disease course, and common environmental risk factors.
- Furthermore, establishment of a biobank with stool samples, intestinal biopsies, and germline DNA for future research on the etiology and evolution of inflammatory bowel disease in an African population at an early stage of the IBD epidemic is emphasized.