Vitamin B12 deficiency in inflammatory bowel disease: Prevalence, risk factors, evaluation, and management

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1120-1128

  Battat, Robert ^a,b   Kopylov, Uri ^a,c   Szilagyi, Andrew ^a,b   Saxena, Anjali ^a   Rosenblatt, David S ^a   Warner, Margaret ^a,c   Bessissow, Talat ^a,c   Seidman, Ernest ^a,c   Bitton, Alain ^a,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; COBALAMIN; CYANOCOBALAMIN;

ANEMIA; BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CROHN DISEASE; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; EMBASE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; ILEUM RESECTION; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; MALABSORPTION; MEDLINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; BLOOD; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY;

COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CROHN DISEASE; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; VITAMIN B 12; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84902204059     PISSN: 10780998     EISSN: 15364844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MIB.0000000000000024     Document Type: Review

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