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Posted 7/19/2013 2:09 AM (GMT 0)
just curious - hope I don't get in trouble for asking smhair
Posted 7/19/2013 2:12 AM (GMT 0)
not much, it's not their disease. There was a black girl on the ostomy forum a year ago called JackieOMG. She had a J pouch and disappeared now.

Chinese and Black folks, they get other diseases, us crackers...we love them IBDS.
Posted 7/19/2013 2:13 AM (GMT 0)
Found an article that cites the African-American rate (for the US) as 1/5 to 1/2 that of whites, but increasing.

http://www.fascrs.org/physicians/education/core_subjects/2005/ulcerative_colitis/

 

Posted 7/19/2013 2:16 AM (GMT 0)
I know the CCFA website says UC is more common among white people of European origin and people with Jewish heritage. I wonder if anyone has ever heard of why scientists think this is the case?
Posted 7/19/2013 2:18 AM (GMT 0)
Of course, I've also read where people that live in the South in the US get it less too. Although I live in the South so a lot of luck that stat did me.
Posted 7/19/2013 2:41 AM (GMT 0)
UC is 5 times more prevalent in Jews - Ashke**** Jews in particular - than the general population. Lucky me!
Posted 7/19/2013 2:42 AM (GMT 0)
I haven't met any personally but I am sure there are some members here who are African American with UC. I went to a focus group once and it was all Caucasian people.
Posted 7/19/2013 2:59 AM (GMT 0)
payback time !
Posted 7/19/2013 5:34 AM (GMT 0)
See The Changing World of IBD [2009], edited by gastros E.J. Scherl & M. Dubinsky. / Old Hat (32 yrs with left-sided UC; presently in remission taking brandname Colazal)
Posted 7/19/2013 8:31 AM (GMT 0)

Gonk said...
UC is 5 times more prevalent in Jews - Ashke**** Jews in particular - than the general population. Lucky me!

Software censorship at its best.
Posted 7/19/2013 2:49 PM (GMT 0)
We have/had African descent posters on this forum but it's hard to keep track of who is who because like Stephen Colbert we "don't see color".

Either the genetics that make UC possible is spreading or the food we eat is making UC possible for more people who are not genetically pre-disposed. I'm whitey-white American of 99% Euro genes and one doctor took a look at me and said I look exactly like the UC profile of genetically disposed type. yay.

Isn't Canada the epicenter of UC? Anglo-Scots-French-Irish.
Posted 7/19/2013 3:26 PM (GMT 0)
I'm Puerto Rican and both my mother and I have it. Don't know who else in the family does
Posted 7/19/2013 3:55 PM (GMT 0)
Wikipedia has a nice entry on race and disease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_health#Race_and_Disease , which gets into some of the differences in prevalence of variance health problems, not all of which are attributable to race specifically, but rather to geographic region (which, in a lot of cases, is highly correlated to race).
Posted 7/19/2013 6:00 PM (GMT 0)

JaxWentworth said...
I know the CCFA website says UC is more common among white people of European origin and people with Jewish heritage. I wonder if anyone has ever heard of why scientists think this is the case?


When CCFA investigated other races to begin with? UC has a good base in Japan as well. When it comes to studying genetic predisposition or disease investigation Caucasian population is studied most but when something is not prevalent in Caucasian population, it is not studied due to the lack of funding.

Gonk said...
UC is 5 times more prevalent in Jews - Ashken@zi Jews in particular - than the general population. Lucky me!


I studied a disorder that is primarily found in this population. The current line of thought is, its because of the inbreeding. If I have to give some genetic suggestion to anybody from this population, I would ask them to have a child with a partner that is not from the same genetic stock and Caucasians. The chances of genetic fcuk up are just too high.


@imagardener2,
I believe all top area of the earth is the epicenter. AFAIK, Sweden is highest among the Scandinavia, 1 in 200.


I am not too sure if there are less number of cases in African-originated population or under-reported. But isn't it the fact that UC also has some connections to affluence?
For e.g. Some 20-30 years ago, India had very less number of IBD patients, now, you hear it quite often.
Posted 7/19/2013 9:17 PM (GMT 0)
UC sees no color
Posted 7/20/2013 12:12 AM (GMT 0)
"UC sees no color"


well I guess that is true - but it does not see some colors more than others -

;-)
Posted 7/20/2013 1:07 AM (GMT 0)
UC likes the cracker color.

I've read that mixed children are the best humans possible. Probably the healthiest.
Posted 7/20/2013 1:44 AM (GMT 0)
"I've read that mixed children are the best humans possible"

pretty much like most animals - most purebreds suck health wise -
Posted 8/13/2013 11:23 PM (GMT 0)
Hello!
This is my first time posting here. To answer your question, yes my family is from Grenada. My mom has severe UC (she's in remission now) and we believe my grandfather had it too. My cousin who is much younger than me has Crohn's.
Posted 8/14/2013 3:22 AM (GMT 0)
At support group for UC/Crohn's there were African Americans present when I was there.
Posted 8/14/2013 2:24 PM (GMT 0)
i am mixed race i have it jamaican dad white mum!! deffo think the rumour about "mixed children are the best humans possible" isnt true :-/
Posted 8/14/2013 5:25 PM (GMT 0)
in Poland uc is practically nonexistent. Remicade or other biological treatments are not refunded. The only hospital in the whole country that has a small section for IBD patients is in Warsaw. The doctors working in this section (supposed to know a bit more about IBD) learned only from me that there are such things as vsl or mutaflor and they were very grateful for this gratis tip.
Posted 8/14/2013 5:33 PM (GMT 0)
I'm 100% Hungarian blood even though I was born in Canada-both parents born in Hungary, my mom had UC (got sick with it in Canada in her mid 60's AFTER I got sick with my crohn's first while in my early 20's...there is IBD in Hungary, they have their own IBD foundation there so there must be enough of it in Hungary for them to have an IBD foundation...Poland is right next door to Hungary, I find it odd that it's practically nonexistent there but then again with IBD nothing surprises me anymore unfortunately.
Posted 8/14/2013 5:35 PM (GMT 0)
I'm from Romania, next door neighbors, pb4. One of my childhood friend was Hungarian living in Romania.
Posted 8/14/2013 5:56 PM (GMT 0)
Very cool Somedude!!! I always wanted to visit Hungary (when I got older of course, my mom and her husband at the time asked me to go when I was a teen) but as a teen I had no interest in hanging out with some old folks--my mom had me when she was 40-- in some "old country" lol...however when I got older then the idea of it was great, but getting sick in my early 20's killed that idea so I really screwed myself over by not going when I had the chance...though I doubt I would have appreciated it anyway as a young teen.
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