Environmental factors and inflammatory bowel disease: Elusive or nonexistent?

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 548-549

  Kappelman, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EDITORIAL; ENTERITIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; UNITED STATES;

COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS;

EID: 84876349090     PISSN: 10780998     EISSN: 15364844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MIB.0b013e318281ce99     Document Type: Editorial

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