Complementary and alternative medicine in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: The results of a population-based inception cohort study (IBSEN)

Abstract

One third of the patients in this population-based cohort had used CAM at some point during a ten-year disease course, but only 7.5% reported current CAM use. CAM use was more common in the CD than in the UC patients. Only socio-demographic factors, such as age, gender and education, predicted CAM use.