A population-based ecologic study of inflammatory bowel disease: Searching for etiologic clues

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 164, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 615-623

  Green, Chris ^a,b   Elliott, Lawrence ^b   Beaudoin, Carole ^a,b   Bernstein, Charles N ^b  

^a Public Health Branch   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Colitis, ulcerative; Crohn's disease; Inflammatory bowel disease; Multiple sclerosis

Indexed keywords

DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISORDER; DISEASE INCIDENCE; ETIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDER;

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; ENTERITIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE INFECTION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

CLIMATE; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INCIDENCE; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; MALE; MANITOBA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CLASS;

CANADA; MANITOBA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33749024165     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwj260     Document Type: Article

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