Here are five insights:
1. Bertus Eksteen, PhD, from the university’s Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, will co-lead the IMAGINE SPOR Chronic Disease Network research project with McMaster University in Ontario, Canada.
2. The project will look at how gut bacteria and diet cause IBD, irritable bowel syndrome and the anxiety and depression that are associated with these disorders.
3. Patients will be invited individually to participate from gastroenterology clinics across Calgary.
4. Early results from the data collection could be in publication as early as 2017, but some of the more complex scientific questions may take years.
5. This national study on digestive health research and care is one of five projects announced by Minister of Health Jane Philpott as part of the Government of Canada’s Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research.
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