Challenges associated with identifying the environmental determinants of the inflammatory bowel diseases

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1792-1799

  Molodecky, Natalie A ^a,b   Panaccione, Remo ^a,b   Ghosh, Subrata ^a,b   Barkema, Herman W ^a,b   Kaplan, Gilaad G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

bias; Crohn's disease; environment; epidemiology; gene; inflammatory bowel disease; risk factors; ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

APPENDICITIS; BIRTH ORDER; BREAST FEEDING; CROHN DISEASE; DIET; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTERITIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; FAMILY SIZE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HOUSING; HUMAN; HYGIENE; LIPID DIET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CROHN DISEASE; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79960255064     PISSN: 10780998     EISSN: 15364844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ibd.21511     Document Type: Review

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