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Disease outcome of inflammatory bowel disease patients: general outline of a Europe-wide population-based 10-year clinical follow-up study.
Scandinavian journal of gastroenterology. Supplement - 1 Jan 2006
Wolters Frank L, Russel Maurice G, Sijbrandij Jildou, Schouten Leo J, Odes Selwyn, Riis Lene, Munkholm Pia, Langholz Ebbe, Bodini Paolo, O'Morain Colm, Katsanos Kostas, Tsianos Epameinondas, Vermeire Severine, Van Zeijl Gilbert, Limonard Charles, Hoie Ole, Vatn Morten, Moum Bjørn, Stockbrügger Reinhold W
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OBJECTIVE: To give a general outline of a 10-year clinical follow-up study of a population-based European cohort of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients and to present the first results in terms of clinical outcome parameters and risk factors. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A population-based cohort of newly, prospectively, diagnosed cases was initiated between 1991 and 1993. The 2201 patients with IBD (706 had...
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