Risk of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease among offspring of patients with chronic inflammatory bowel disease

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 3236-3238

  Orholm, Marianne ^a   Fonager, Kirsten ^b   Sørensen, Henrik Toft ^c  

^a Elsinore Hospital   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLON CROHN DISEASE; DENMARK; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; GENETIC RISK; HEREDITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REGISTER; RELATIVE; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROHN DISEASE; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; MALE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0032706887     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9270(99)00585-7     Document Type: Article

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