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| TS is endemic in India, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean. TS is rarely seen in short-term travelers and surveys of returned travelers in the recent times indicate that it is occurring less frequently worldwide.
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| ==Epidemiology and Demographics== | | ==Epidemiology and Demographics== |
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| Tropical sprue is endemic to India and southeast Asia, Central and South America, and the Caribbean.
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| ===Prevalence=== | | ===Prevalence=== |
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| The overall incidence of TS was 0.24 per 100,000 person-years based on the number of active duty military personnel.<ref name="McCarrollRiddle2015">{{cite journal|last1=McCarroll|first1=Matthew G.|last2=Riddle|first2=Mark S.|last3=Gutierrez|first3=Ramiro L.|last4=Porter|first4=Chad K.|title=Infectious Gastroenteritis as a Risk Factor for Tropical Sprue and Malabsorption: A Case–Control Study|journal=Digestive Diseases and Sciences|volume=60|issue=11|year=2015|pages=3379–3385|issn=0163-2116|doi=10.1007/s10620-015-3768-8}}</ref>
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| Patients of all age groups may develop TS, with the mean age of 40 years and ranging from 27-74 years.
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| Male are slightly at an increased risk of TS.
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| Caucasians were at an increased risk of acquiring TS.
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| * The disease is endemic in Caribbean, Central America, Venezuela and Columbia, the Indian subcontinent, and Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia and the Philippines.<ref name="pmid552462">{{cite journal| author=O'Brien W| title=Tropical sprue: a review. | journal=J R Soc Med | year= 1979 | volume= 72 | issue= 12 | pages= 916-20 | pmid=552462 | doi= | pmc=1437255 | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=552462 }} </ref>
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| * TS is endemic in places located between 30° north and south of the equator, including India, Southeast Asia, West Africa, northern South America, and several locations in the Caribbean.<ref name="BrownBettington2014">{{cite journal|last1=Brown|first1=Ian S.|last2=Bettington|first2=Andrew|last3=Bettington|first3=Mark|last4=Rosty|first4=Christophe|title=Tropical Sprue|journal=The American Journal of Surgical Pathology|volume=38|issue=5|year=2014|pages=666–672|issn=0147-5185|doi=10.1097/PAS.0000000000000153}}</ref><ref name="pmid23481048">{{cite journal| author=Ramakrishna BS| title=Tropical sprue: a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. | journal=Indian J Med Res | year= 2013 | volume= 137 | issue= 1 | pages= 12-4 | pmid=23481048 | doi= | pmc=3657874 | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=23481048 }} </ref>
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