Relation of body mass index to risk of developing inflammatory bowel disease amongst women in the Danish National Birth Cohort.

Crohn's disease (CD) has traditionally been associated with weight loss and low BMI, yet paradoxically obesity has recently been suggested as a risk factor for CD, but not for ulcerative colitis (UC). We therefore hypothesized that the relation between BMI and CD is U shaped.To conduct a large...

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Main Authors: Michael Mendall, Maria Christina Harpsøe, Devinder Kumar, Mikael Andersson, Tine Jess
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5783332?pdf=render