CARDIOVASCULAR AND INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES: COMORBIDITY OR POLYMORBIDITY?

The review of literature, devoted to the problem of associated course of cardiovascular diseases among patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) (Crohn’s disease and ulcerous colitis) is presented in the paper. The data on the prevalence, common etiological and pathogenetic factors, peculiarities of clinical picture in IBD patients, when associated with a number of cardiovascular diseases, were analyzed. The results of work aimed at characterization of peculiar features of patients’ genetic, immunological and hemostesiological profile with syntropia of these diseases are indicated.