Article
IBD across the age spectrum: is it the same disease?
Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology - 1 Feb 2014
Ruel Joannie, Ruane Darren, Mehandru Saurabh, Gower-Rousseau Corinne, Colombel Jean-Frédéric
Abstract excerpt
IBD is a chronic disorder with disease onset ranging from early childhood to beyond the sixth decade of life. The factors that determine the age of onset currently remain unexplained. Is timing of occurrence a random event or is it indicative of different pathophysiological pathways leading to different phenotypes across the age spectrum? Over the past decade, several studies have suggested that the...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Age Factors
- Age of Onset
- Aged
- Aging
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Colitis, Ulcerative
- Crohn Disease
- Humans
- Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
