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Epidemiology and natural history of inflammatory bowel diseases.
Gastroenterology - 1 May 2011
Cosnes Jacques, Gower-Rousseau Corinne, Seksik Philippe, Cortot Antoine
Abstract excerpt
In the West, the incidence and prevalence of inflammatory bowel diseases has increased in the past 50 years, up to 8-14/100,000 and 120-200/100,000 persons, respectively, for ulcerative colitis (UC) and 6-15/100,000 and 50-200/100,000 persons, respectively, for Crohn's disease (CD). Studies of migrant populations and populations of developing countries demonstrated a recent, slow increase in the incidence of UC,...
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