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CompletedNCT02727959IBSENIIIUpdated Mar 5, 2020

Inflammatory Bowel Disease in South Eastern Norway

An observational study in Colitis, Ulcerative, Crohn Disease and Inflammatory Bowel Disease, sponsored by Oslo University Hospital. Completed at 1 site in Norway. Open to participants aged Up to 100 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-03-05.

Sponsored by Oslo University Hospital · Observational

Study type
Observational
Model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
2,286
Ages
Up to 100 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The IBSEN III study will investigate the incidence of inflammatory bowel disease in South Eastern Norway and describe the clinical course of the disease. The investigators will map newly diagnosed and treatment naive IBD patients at various levels (epidemiological, clinical, psychosocial and nutritional as well as immunological, genetic, epigenetic and microbial) as a basis to improve targeted and individualized treatment and care. The investigators will include incident IBD patients at all local- and university hospitals in the South Eastern Health Region in 2016-2018 and follow-up prospectively for five years. The investigators will use standardized and validated registration methods allowing comparability with previous national and international IBD cohorts, link data to national health registries and collect blood, feces and biopsies for bio banking.

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Conditions studied

  • Colitis, Ulcerative
  • Crohn Disease
  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Keywords

  • UC
  • CD
  • IBD
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In context

Crohn Disease

1,880 studies on the registry are indexed under Crohn Disease; 461 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 2,286 is above the median of 162 across 608 observational studies indexed under Crohn Disease.

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Lead sponsor

Oslo University Hospital is the lead sponsor of 810 studies on the registry; 148 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
Up to 100 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No
Sampling method
Non-probability sample

Study population

Adult and pediatric patients untreated and newly diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease i.e ulcerative colitis or Crohns disease as well as non-IBD Controls.

Inclusion criteria

Ulcerative colitis:

Diagnostic criteria (at least three out of four criteria present):

  1. A history of diarrhea and/or pus in stools for more than 4weeks or repeated episodes.
  2. Macroscopic appearance at endoscopy of continuous mucosal inflammation affecting the rectum in continuity with some or the entire colon.
  3. Microscopic features on biopsy compatible with UC,
  4. No suspicion of CD on small bowel X-ray, ileocolonoscopy or biopsy.

Crohn's disease:

Diagnostic criteria (at least two of four criteria present):

  1. History of abdominal pain, weight loss and/or diarrhea for more than three months.
  2. Characteristic endoscopic findings of ulceration (aphthous lesions, snail track ulceration) or cobble stoning or radiological features of stricture or cobble stoning.
  3. Histopathology consistent with Crohn's disease (epitheloid granuloma of Langerhans type or transmural discontinuous focal or patchy inflammation).
  4. Fistula and/or abscess in relation to affected bowel segments.

Inflammatory bowel disease, type unclassified (IBDU) :

Patients with evidence on clinical and endoscopic grounds for chronic inflammatory bowel disease affecting the colon, without small bowel involvement, and no definitive histological or other evidence to favor either CD or UC.

Pediatric patients:

Will be diagnosed according to the Porto-criteria and defined as:

Pediatric onset IBD ≤ 16 years Early Onset IBD (EOIBD) \< 10 years Very Early Onset IBD (VEOIBD) \< 6 years Infantile (and toddler) IBD \< 2 years Neonatal IBD \< 28 days

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria:

  • Other causes of acute or chronic bowel inflammation must be excluded, i.e. infectious colitis, radiation colitis, diversion colitis, solitary rectal ulcer syndrome, graft versus host disease, diverticular colitis, medication associated colitis, ischemic colitis, microscopic colitis, enema associated colitis.
  • Refusal or not able to give informed consent
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Study design

Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
2,286 participants (actual)
Patient registry
No

Groups and cohorts

  • Patients newly diagnosed with IBD
  • Symptomatic non IBD-controls

    Patients referred with symptoms suspicious of IBD, but who, after examination, are found not to have the diagnosis.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Evidence for ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease or indeterminate colitis based on specific clinical, endoscopic, histological and radiological criteria

    Diagnosis according to the Lennard Jones Criteria for the diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease

    Time frame: At baseline

Secondary outcomes

  1. Change in IBD diagnosis between baseline and one year follow-up

    Change in diagnosis based on specified clinical, endoscopic, histological and radiological criteria

    Time frame: 1 year (+/-3 months)

  2. Change in IBD diagnosis between one year and five year follow-up

    Change in diagnosis based on specified clinical, endoscopic, histological and radiological criteria

    Time frame: 5 year (+/-3 months)

  3. Change in disease classification (montreal Classification) between baseline and one year follow-up.

    Change in disease extension and severity as defined in the Montreal classification system for IBD

    Time frame: 1 year (+/-3 months)

  4. Change in disease classification (montreal Classification) between one and five year follow-up

    Change in disease extension and severity as defined in the Montreal classification system for IBD

    Time frame: 5 year (+/-3 months)

  5. IBD related bowel surgery

    Bowel surgery for any IBD related condition

    Time frame: 1 year (+/-3 months)

  6. IBD related bowel surgery

    Bowel surgery for any IBD related condition

    Time frame: 5 year (+/-3 months)

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Study locations

1 site
  • Oslo University Hospital
    Oslo, 0871, Norway
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Mar 5, 2020, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT02727959
Lead sponsor
Oslo University Hospital
Collaborators
University of Oslo, Oslo Metropolitan University, Takeda, Ferring Pharmaceuticals
Responsible party
Marte Lie Høivik (MD Postdoc PhD, Oslo University Hospital) — Principal investigator
First posted
Apr 5, 2016
Start date
Jan 1, 2017
Primary completion
Dec 31, 2019
Completion
Dec 31, 2019
Last update
Mar 5, 2020

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
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