For questions relating to prognosis, analyses from prospectively followed cohorts of
unselected patients are considered most reliable. 1 Examples cited here include the …

This thesis summarizes the epidemiological research that I carried out from 2013 to 2021
during my employment at the Department of Surgery at Nordsjællands Hospital, the …

The inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), consisting of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis,
are chronic inflammatory conditions of the gut believed to occur in genetically predisposed …

Although inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) now affects about 1 in 300 of the population in
many Westernized countries and is a significant public health problem, its incidence (the …

Dear Editors: We commend Agrawal et al 1 for a well-conducted study on the incidence and
prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in Denmark from 1995 to 2016. They found …

Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), commonly referred to as inflammatory
bowel disease (IBD), are chronic intestinal diseases of partly unknown etiology. UC has …

Mortality statistics pertaining to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) can be difficult to interpret
for several reasons. First, IBD is a relatively uncommon cause of death, so minor …

The indirect cost of illness represents the portion of human capital that is foregone due to
lost productivity of patients and their caregivers and out-of-pocket healthcare expenses …

Blomqvist P, Ekbom A. Inflammatory bowel diseases: health care and costs in Sweden in
1994. Scand J Gastroenterol 1997; 32: 1134–1139. Background: Inflammatory bowel …

METHODS: The NorDIBD cohort covered all pediatric and adult patients with an IBD
diagnosis dated between January 1, 1978, and December 31, 2020, and living in North …