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South Asian Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease in the United States Demonstrate More Fistulizing and Perianal Crohn Phenotype.
Inflammatory bowel diseases - 19 Nov 2020
Jangi Sushrut, Ruan Alex, Korzenik Joshua, de Silva Punyanganie
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BACKGROUND: South Asians have recently been identified as having a rapidly rising incidence and prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) throughout the world. However, longitudinal phenotypic studies of South Asians living in the United States remain scarce. METHODS: We retrospectively studied 171 South Asian patients with IBD treated at 2 US tertiary centers who presented between 2000 and 2016. South Asian...
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