{"id":5500,"date":"2020-03-27T16:16:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T23:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5500"},"modified":"2021-03-02T16:17:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T00:17:29","slug":"are-patients-with-inflammatory-bowel-disease-at-increased-risk-for-covid-19-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/27\/are-patients-with-inflammatory-bowel-disease-at-increased-risk-for-covid-19-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Are patients with inflammatory bowel disease at increased risk for Covid-19 infection?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The authors discuss the theoretical biological mechanisms which could put inflammatory bowel disease patients at risk, with inflamed gut tissue representing an optimal doorway for viral entry.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, no published evidence suggest that COVID-19 occurs more frequently in IBD patients, and no IBD patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection were reported in Wuhan.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Monteleone and Ardizzone (Mar 26, 2020). Are patients with inflammatory bowel disease at increased risk for Covid-19 infection? J Crohn\u2019s Colitis.\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/ecco-jcc\/jjaa061\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/ecco-jcc\/jjaa061<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authors discuss the theoretical biological mechanisms which could put inflammatory bowel disease patients at risk, with inflamed gut tissue representing an optimal doorway for viral entry. However, no published evidence suggest that COVID-19 occurs more frequently in IBD patients, and no IBD patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection were reported in Wuhan.\u00a0\u00a0 Monteleone and Ardizzone (Mar&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/27\/are-patients-with-inflammatory-bowel-disease-at-increased-risk-for-covid-19-infection\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-5500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5501,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5500\/revisions\/5501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5500"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}