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Rising Incidence of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Canterbury, New Zealand.
Inflammatory bowel diseases - 1 Sept 2016
Su Heidi Y, Gupta Vikesh, Day Andrew S, Gearry Richard B
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BACKGROUND: A population-based study of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in the Canterbury province of New Zealand demonstrated an incidence of Crohn's disease (CD) of 16.5 per 100,000 population in 2004, along with a high rate of IBD overall. At the time, this was one of the highest rates of CD in the world. The current study aimed to ascertain the incidence of IBD in the same area 10 years later. METHODS: All...
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