Frequency of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Patients Presenting to the General Medicine Clinic with Chronic Diarrhea and Bleeding Per Rectum at a Tertiary CareHospital in Islamabad

Background: Frequency of inflammatory bowel disease in patients presenting to gastroenterology clinic with chronic diarrhea and bleeding per rectum at tertiary care hospital Islamabad. Methods: This study was conducted through a non-probability convenient sampling technique in the Department of Medicine, Rawal Institute of Health Sciences, Rawalpindi for a period of 11 months from December 2022 to November 2024. All the adult males and females who presented with chronic diarrhea for more than 03 months and bleeding per-rectum were included. Baseline and clinical data were collected and analyzed using SPSS version 26.0. Results: A total of 126 patients were selected for final analysis and their mean age was 34.18±8.07 years. The prevalence of IBD reported among 15.07% (n = 19) of the patients. IBD were most significantly associated in young patients (36.12±9.23 – years), patients with comparatively low body weight (60.65±11.51 – kg), lower BMI levels (22.41±1.06 – kg/m2), low hemoglobin levels (8.21±1.22 – gm/dL), female participants (n = 12, 9.52%), and current smokers (n = 16, 12.69%), p value <0.05. Conclusion: In our study we have concluded that prevalence of IBD in patients presented with chronic diarrhea and bleeding per-rectum was two-folds higher. Controlling the risk factors may reduce its burden.