While life expectancy rates for older Americans are rising, nearly 40% of adults report living with a digestive disease of some kind. "Many people don't realize that these conditions are very common in ambulatory care," said Michigan Medicine gastroenterologist Shirley Ann Cohen-Mekelburg, M.D. , who specializes in conditions like inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. "Ultimately, this creates an excess in health care spending in the United States. Not only are these conditions debilitating for the millions of people living with them, but they're also very expensive to treat.

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