The prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease in patients with hidradenitis suppurativa

Background: Hidradenitis suppurativa is a chronic inflammatory skin disease associated with many other systemic manifestations including metabolic syndrome. Multiple other inflammatory disorders have been associated with inflammatory bowel disease including psoriasis and rosacea. IBD has been reported with HS however analysis have often utilized large data pulls which rely on International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding. This leads to the possibility of overestimating prevalence.