Incidence Trends of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in a Southern European Country: A Mirror of the Western World?

Clin Transl Gastroenterol · 2022 · PMC9132531 · PMID 35347090

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an increasing trendno p-value reported

First, the low incidence values in young children over time do not resemble those of recent studies, including a meta-analysis that reported an increasing trend of IBD incidence in this age category in the Western world ( 24 , 25 ).

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a decreasing trendno p-value reported

We observed a decreasing trend in the North (2017–2019: 62.6–60.8) and Lisbon (2017–2019: 58.4–47.7).

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