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Hispanic Americans and Non-Hispanic White Americans Have a Similar Inflammatory Bowel Disease Phenotype: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis.
Digestive diseases and sciences - 1 Jun 2018
Avalos Danny J, Mendoza-Ladd Antonio, Zuckerman Marc J, Bashashati Mohammad, Alvarado Andres, Dwivedi Alok, Damas Oriana M
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BACKGROUND: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a devastating immune-mediated disease on the rise in Hispanics living in the USA. Prior observational studies comparing IBD characteristics between Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites (NHW) have yielded mixed results. AIMS: We performed a meta-analysis of observational studies examining IBD phenotype in Hispanics compared to NHW. METHODS: We conducted a systematic...
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