[Epidemiology and risk factors of inflammatory bowel diseases].

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Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are a public health problem in developed countries as 1 per 1000 people suffers from these diseases. Most of affected people are young adults. The incidence of IBD has increased considerably in western countries since the Second World War and it is beginning to level off. On the other hand, incidence is still rising in low incidence areas such as Eastern Europe, Asia and...

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