Is smoking still an important environmental factor in inflammatory bowel diseases? Results from a population-based incident cohort
P Golovics, L Lakatos, T Pandur, Z Erdélyi, G Mester, M Balogh, I Szipocs, C Molnár, E Komáromi, B Lovász, Á Horváth, M Mandel, L Kiss, P Lakatos · Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie · 2012 · Heft 05
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Background and Aims: Prior studies suggest that smoking is an important environmental factor in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), with divergent effects in UC and CD. Our aim was to analyze the relationship between smoking and risk of IBD in the population-based Veszprem province database, which included incident patients diagnosed between January 1, 1977 and December 31, 2008. Methods: Data of 1420 incident patients were analyzed (UC: 914, age at diagnosis: 38.9 SD15.9 years; CD: 506, age at diagnosis: 31.5 SD13.8 years). Both in- and outpatient records were collected and comprehensively reviewed. The overall…
