Timmer, Antje and Goebell, H. (1999) Incidence of ulcerative colitis, 1980-1995 - a prospective study in an urban population in Germany. ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GASTROENTEROLOGIE, 37 (11). pp. 1079-1084. ISSN 0044-2771, 1439-7803
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A prospective, population-based study was carried out from 1980 to 1984 and again from 1991 to 1995 to determine the incidence of ulcerative colitis in an urban area in Germany. Patients with proctitis were excluded from this analysis. 74 (1980-84) and 76 (1991-95) patients newly diagnozed with ulcerative colitis were identified. A slight rise in the age- and sex-standardized incidence rate from 2.4/10(5) in 1980-84 (95% CI 1.8/10(5) to 3.0/10(5)) to 3.0 (95% CI 2.4/10(5) to 3.7/10(5)) in 1991-95 was primarily due to a significant increase of the disease in young woman. A male preponderance in the earlier time period was hereby leveled out. There were no differences in the extent of the disease and the severity of symptoms. However, the time from onset of symptoms to diagnosis was reduced from a median of nine months in the 1980s to two months in the more recent period.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | INFLAMMATORY BOWEL-DISEASE; CROHNS-DISEASE; PREVALENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; SWEDEN; SMOKING; PROCTOCOLITIS; COMMUNITY; EXTENT; SPAIN; ulcerative colitis; epidemiology; incidence |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Innere Medizin I |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Dec 2022 12:42 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Dec 2022 12:42 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/48908 |
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