Chronic comorbidities associated with inflammatory bowel disease: prevalence and impact on healthcare costs in Switzerland

Objective Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) was shown to be associated with a variety of chronic comorbidities. We aimed to evaluate the frequency of 21 chronic conditions and compared frequencies in IBD and non-IBD populations. Further, healthcare costs of those (additional) chronic conditions were calculated. Patients and methods A total of 4791 IBD patients, who were insured at Helsana Insurance Group in 2014, were compared with 1 114 638...