Elderly Adults with Late-Onset Ulcerative Colitis Tend to Have Atypical, Milder Initial Clinical Presentations but Higher Surgical Rates and Mortality: A Taiwan Society of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Study.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to several research studies on the clinical presentation and prognosis of ulcerative colitis in elderly adults, and it mentions proctitis, inflammatory bowel disease, and the risk of death in older people.