Inflammatory bowel disease in Icelandic children 1951-2010. Population-based study involving one nation over six decades

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1399-1404

  Agnarsson, Úlfur ^a   Björnsson, Sigurdur ^b   Jóhansson, Jóhann Heidar ^a   Sigurdsson, Luther ^a,c  

^a LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

^b Medical Clinic   (Iceland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Crohn's disease; Epidemiology; IBD; Iceland; Incidence; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; COLON RESECTION; CROHN DISEASE; DEATH; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ICELAND; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PANCOLITIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECOND DEGREE RELATIVE; SEX RATIO; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ICELAND; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84892177570     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: 15027708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365521.2013.845799     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Benchimol EI, Fortinsky KJ, Gozdyra P, Van den Heuvel M, Van Limbergen J, Griffiths AM. Epidemiology of pediatric inflammatory bowel disease: A systematic review of international trends. Inflamm Bowel Dis 2011;17:423-39
2. Ng SC, Bernstein CN, Vatn MH, Lakatos PL, Loftus EV Jr, Tysk C, et al. Epidemiology and Natural History Task Force of the International Organization of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IOIBD). Geographical variability and environmental risk factors in inflammatory bowel disease. Gut 2013;62: 630-49
3. Bjornsson S. Inflammatory bowel disease in Iceland during a 30-year period, 1950-1979. Scand J Gastroenterol Suppl 1989;170:47-9
4. Bjornsson S, Johannsson JH, Oddsson E. Inflammatory bowel disease in Iceland, 1980-89 (A retrospective nationwide epidemiologic study). Scand J Gastroenterol 1998;33: 71-7
5. Lennard-Jones JE. Classification of inflammatory bowel disease. Scand J Gastroenterol Suppl 1989;24:2-6
6. Shivananda S, Lennard-Jones J, Logan R, Fear N, Price A, Carpenter L, van Blankenstein M, et al. Incidence of inflammatory bowel disease across Europe: Is there a difference between north and south? Results of the European Collaborative Study on Inflammatory Bowel Disease (ECIBD). Gut 1996;39:690-7
7. Bousvaros A, Antonioli DA, Colletti RB, Dubinsky MC, Glickman JN, Gold BD, et al. Differentiating Ulcerative Colitis from Crohn's Disease in Children and Young Adults: Report of a Working Group of the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition and the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2007;44:653-74
8. Levine A, Griffiths A, Markowitz J, Wilson DC, Turner D, Russell RK, et al. Pediatric modification of the Montreal classification for inflammatory bowel disease: The Paris classification. Inflamm Bowel Dis 2011;17:1314-21
9. Hagstofa Íslands (Statistics Iceland). Available from http:// www.statice.is/Statistics/Population/Overview
10. Boyle P, Parkin DM. Statistical methods for registries. In Jensen OM, Parkin DM, McLennan R, et al. editors. Cancer registration: Principles and methods. IARC Scientific Publication No. 95 Lyon, France: IARC; 1991. pp 126-58
11. Pozler O, Maly J, Bonova O, Dedek P, Fruhauf P, Havlickova A, et al. Incidence of Crohn's disease in the Czech Republic in the years 1990 to 2001 and assessment of pediatric population with inflammatory bowel disease. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2006;42:186-9
12. Henderson P, Hansen R, Cameron FL, Gerasimidis K, Rogers P, Bissett WM, et al. Rising incidence of pediatric inflammatory bowel disease in Scotland. Inflamm Bowel Dis 2012;18:999-1005
13. Lehtinen P, Ashorn M, Iltanen S, Jauhola R, Jauhonen P, Kolho KL, et al. Incidence trends of pediatric inflammatory bowel disease in Finland, 1987-2003, a nationwide study. Inflamm Bowel Dis 2011;17:1778-83
14. Jakobsen C. Incidence of Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's disease in Danish children: Still rising or levelling out? J Crohns Colitis 2008;2:152-7
15. Ahmed M, Davies IH, Hood K, Jenkins HR. Incidence of paediatric inflammatory bowel disease in South Wales [short report]. Arch Dis Child 2006;91:344-5
16. Jakobsen C, Paerregaard A, Munkholm P, Wewer V. Paediatric inflammatory bowel disease during a 44-year period in Copenhagen County: Occurrence, course and prognosis-a population-based study from the Danish Crohn's Colitis Database. Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2009;21:1291-301
17. Adamiak T, Waliewicz-Jedrzejczak D, Fish D, Brown C, Tung J, Khan K, et al. Incidence, clinical characteristics, and natural history of pediatric IBD in Wisconsin: A population based epidemiological study. Infamm Bowel Dis 2013;19:1218-23
18. Malmberg P, Grahnquist L, Lindholm J, Montgomery S, Hildebrand H. Increasing incidence of paediatric inflammatory bowel disease in northern Stockholm County. 2002-2007. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2013;57:29-34
19. Hildebrand H, Finkel Y, Grahnquist L, Lindholm J, Ekbom A, Askling J, et al. Changing pattern of paediatric inflammatory bowel disease in northern Stockholm 1990-2001. Gut 2003;52:1432-4
20. Perminow G, Brackmann S, Lyckander LG. A characterization in childhood inflammatory bowel disease, a new population-based inception cohort from South-Eastern Norway, 2005-07, showing increased incidence in Crohn's disease. Scand J Gastroenterol 2009;44:446-56
21. Benchimol EI, Guttmann A, Griffiths AM. Increasing incidence of paediatric inflammatory bowel disease in Ontario, Canada: Evidence from health administrative data. Gut 2009; 58:1490-7
22. Bjornsson S, Johannsson JH. Inflammatory bowel disease in Iceland, 1990-1994 (a prospective, nationwide, epidemiological study). Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2000; 12:31-8
23. Thorsson AV, Aspelund T, Helgason T. Incidence of childhood diabetes in Iceland for 35 years. 1971-2005 - Data from the last decade confirms a steady increase. Diabet Med 2006; 23:P545; 192
24. Dotson JL, Hyams J, Markowitz J, LeLeiko NS, Mack DR, Evans JS, et al. Extraintestinal manifestations of pediatric inflammatory bowel disease and their relation to disease type and severity. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2010;51:140-5
25. Heyman MB. Development of extraintestinal manifestations in pediatric patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Inflamm Bowel Dis 2009;15:63-8
26. Medici V, Mascheretti S, Croucher PJP, Stoll M, Hampe J, Grebe S. Extreme heterogeneity in CARD15 and DLG5 Crohn's disease-associated polymorphisms between German and Norwegian populations. Eur J Hum Genet 2006;14:459-68
27. Thjodleifsson B, Sigthorsson G, Cariglia N, Reynisdottir I, Gudbjartsson DF, Kristjansson K, et al. Subclinical intestinal inflammation: An inherited abnormality in Crohn's disease relatives? Gastroenterology 2003;124:1728-37
28. Mack DR, Markowitz J, Lerer T, Griffiths AM, Evans JS, Otley AR, et al. Upper gastrointestinal involvement in pediatric Crohns disease experience of a large multicenter inception cohort. DDW 2010 Abstract 1189. Gastroenterology 2010;138:S200
29. Morgan XC, Tickle TL, Sokol H, Gevers D, Devaney KL, Ward DV. Dysfunction of the intestinal microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease and treatment. Genome Biol 2012;13:R79
30. Directorate of health Iceland. Available from http://www. landlaeknir.is/utgefid-efni/skjal/item15302/Reykingar-Islendinga- 1989-2012
31. Grimson A, Olafsson O. Drug prescription in Iceland. Brit J Prev Soc Med 1973;31:3165-6
32. Van de Sande-Bruinsma N, Grundmann H, Verloo D, Tiemersma E, Monen J, Goossens H, et al. European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System Group; European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption Project Group. Antimicrobial drug use and resistance in Europe. Emerg Infect Dis 2008;14:1722-30
33. Gunnarsdottir I, Gustavsdottir AG, Thorsdottir I. Iodine intake and status in Iceland through a period of 60 years. Food Nutr Res 2009;53:10.3402/fnr.v53i0.1925