Dietary risk factors for inflammatory bowel disease A Multicenter Case‐Control Study in Japan

• Published in: Inflammatory bowel diseases Vol. 11; no. 2; pp. 154 - 163
• Main Authors: Sakamoto, Naomasa, Kono, Suminori, Wakai, Kenji, Fukuda, Yoshihiro, Satomi, Masamichi, Shimoyama, Takashi, Inaba, Yutaka, Miyake, Yoshihiro, Sasaki, Satoshi, Okamoto, Kazushi, Kobashi, Gen, Washio, Masakazu, Yokoyama, Tetsuji, Date, Chigusa, Tanaka, Heizo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc 01.02.2005; Oxford University Press
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Ascorbic Acid - pharmacology; Case-Control Studies; case‐control study; Colitis, Ulcerative - etiology; Colitis, Ulcerative - prevention & control; Crohn Disease - etiology; Crohn Disease - prevention & control; Crohn's disease; Diet; Dietary Fats; Dietary Sucrose; Fatty acids; Female; Humans; Inflammatory bowel disease; Japan; Male; Mental Recall; Odds Ratio; Reproducibility of Results; Risk Factors; Seafood; ulcerative colitis; Japan; INW, Japan

To evaluate the role of dietary factors in the etiology of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), we conducted a multicenter hospital‐based case‐control study in a Japanese population. Cases were IBD patients aged 15 to 34 years [ulcerative colitis (UC) 111 patients; Crohn's disease (CD) 128 patient...