IBD in children: lessons for adults.

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When children develop inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), physicians and researchers are presented with a singular opportunity to understand the nature of these chronic, idiopathic illnesses in the earliest stages. Genetic susceptibility factors tend to be common, whereas complicating environmental factors such as cigarette smoking are generally not an issue. As opposed to the case in adult patients, Crohn's...

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