Epidemiological characteristics of Asian children with inflammatory bowel disease at diagnosis: Insights from an Asian-Pacific multi-centre registry network

BACKGROUND: There remains a dearth of Asian epidemiological literature for paediatric inflammatory bowel disease (PIBD). AIM: a central standardised electronic data platform. METHODS: December 2019. Disease phenotypic characteristics were classified as per the Paris classification system. RESULTS: = 0.003). CD patients presented with significantly more constitutional symptoms (fever, anorexia, malaise/fatigue and muscle-wasting) than UC and higher inflammatory indices (higher C-reactive protein and lower albumin levels). CONCLUSION: We observed a high incidence of VEO-IBD and an over-representation of the Indian ethnicity. South Asian CD patients were more likely to have symptomatic perianal disease.