A Descriptive Study on the Population of Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease at the Veterans Affairs Caribbean Healthcare System in San Juan.

Objective: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) comprises a group of related conditions characterized by idiopathic inflammation of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Several studies have described the epidemiology of IBD in Puerto Rico (PR) but none have included the US military and Veteran population. The goal of this study was to describe the prevalence of IBD in this population as well as to describe patients' characteristics.