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The Epidemiology of Crohn’s Disease, Trends and Clues

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Recent Advances in Crohn’s Disease

Part of the book series: Developments in Gastroenterology ((DIGA,volume 1))

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Epidemiologic studies performed by numerous investigators, many of them present here, have produced data which may be of help in elucidating the etiology of Crohn’s disease. In recent decades medical research was focussed on possible endogenous causes; now the pendulum has swung again and the search is on for possible exogenous causes. I would like to submit that available epidemiological information supports the predominance of exogenous or environmental factors in the causation of Crohn’s disease. This evidence may be grouped under 3 headings: a] Rapidly increasing incidence of the disease in defined populations, b] study of a migrant populations Ashkenazi Jews and c] the very low [and rising] incidence in several developing populations.

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  1. Department of Gastroenterology, State University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands

    A. S. Peña  & Irene T. Weterman  & 

  2. Clinical Research Centre, Northwick Park, Harrow, UK

    C. C. Booth

  3. National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA

    W. Strober

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Gilat, T., Rozen, P. (1981). The Epidemiology of Crohn’s Disease, Trends and Clues. In: Peña, A.S., Weterman, I.T., Booth, C.C., Strober, W. (eds) Recent Advances in Crohn’s Disease. Developments in Gastroenterology, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8273-4_33

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