Recent trends in the epidemiology of inflammatory bowel diseases: Up or down?

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 12, Issue 38, 2006, Pages 6102-6108

  Lakatos, Peter Laszlo ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Crohn's disease; Epidemiology; Incidence; Inflammatory bowel diseases; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

ASIA; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CROHN DISEASE; DIET; EDITORIAL; ENTERITIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH SERVICE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; INCIDENCE; LIFESTYLE; ONSET AGE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOUTH AMERICA; TREND STUDY; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

EID: 33750609696     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v12.i38.6102     Document Type: Editorial

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