Abstract

We want to extend our gratitude to the authors of the “Letter to the Editor: Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Latin America: A Systematic Review” for their knowledgeable comments and interest in our study. As described in our article, we conducted a comprehensive systematic review to estimate the burden of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in Latin America on the basis of published and unpublished studies from January 2000 to September 2015. We retrieved 3455 references, finally including 25 studies, which were mainly registries. Despite the clear heterogeneity and scarcity of high-quality epidemiological studies on IBD, we could picture the increasing trend in the diagnosis of this pathology in Latin America during the study period.