RT Journal
A1 Torpy JM, Lynm C, Golub RM
T1 ULcerative colitis
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2012
FD January 4
VO 307
IS 1
SP 104
OP 104
DO 10.1001/jama.2011.1889
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2011.1889
AB 
Inflammatory bowel diseases  (IBD) such as ulcerative colitis  and Crohn disease  make the bowel (intestine ) inflamed, irritated, swollen, and unable to function in a healthy way. Ulcerative colitis affects the large intestine (the colon) and the rectum but does not involve the small intestine (the part of the bowel that connects the stomach to the colon and that is responsible for almost all the body's food digestion and absorption of nutrition). Crohn disease affects both the small intestine and the colon.