698 Epidemiology and Clinical Outcomes of Microscopic Colitis: Preliminary Results From the Loyola University Microscopic Colitis Registry (LUMiCoR)
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Epidemiology of microscopic colitis.
We read the interesting paper by Pardi et al on the epidemiology of microscopic colitis in Olmsted County, Minnesota, USA (Gut 2007; 56: 504–8). They concluded that the incidence of microscopic colitis increased significantly over time, and by the end of the study, the incidence and prevalence were significantly higher than reported previously. In fact, compared with other epidemiological studi...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Gastroenterology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0002-9270,1572-0241
DOI: 10.14309/01.ajg.0000592328.13972.ec