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Characteristics of Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Korea: Comparison with EUROKIDS Data.
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Gut and liver [Gut Liver] 2015 Nov 23; Vol. 9 (6), pp. 756-60. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Background/aims: Pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has been increasing worldwide. The characteristics of pediatric-onset IBD have mainly been reported in Western countries. We investigated the clinical characteristics of pediatric IBD in Korea and compared these with the data from the 5-year European multicenter study of children with new-onset IBD (EUROKIDS registry).<br />Methods: Children who were diagnosed with IBD between July 1987 and January 2012 were investigated at five Korean university hospitals. Their clinical characteristics were retrospectively evaluated by medical record review. The results were compared with the EUROKIDS data.<br />Results: A total of 30 children with Crohn's disease (CD) and 33 children with ulcerative colitis (UC) were enrolled. In comparison with the EUROKIDS group, Korean pediatric IBD patients showed a male predominance (86.7% vs 59.2%, p=0.002 in CD; 75.8% vs 50%, p=0.003 in UC). Korean pediatric CD patients had a higher prevalence of terminal ileal disease (36.7% vs 16.3%, p=0.004) and perianal disease (33.3% vs 8.2%, p<0.001) than patients in the EUROKIDS group. Korean pediatric UC patients had a higher prevalence of proctitis than patients in the EUROKIDS group.<br />Conclusions: Our results suggest that the characteristics of Korean pediatric IBD patients and European pediatric IBD patients may be different.
- Subjects :
- Adolescent
Anus Diseases complications
Anus Diseases epidemiology
Anus Diseases pathology
Child
Colitis, Ulcerative complications
Colitis, Ulcerative epidemiology
Crohn Disease complications
Crohn Disease epidemiology
Europe epidemiology
Female
Humans
Ileal Diseases complications
Ileal Diseases epidemiology
Ileal Diseases pathology
Male
Prevalence
Proctitis epidemiology
Proctitis etiology
Registries
Republic of Korea epidemiology
Retrospective Studies
Sex Factors
Colitis, Ulcerative pathology
Crohn Disease pathology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 2005-1212
- Volume :
- 9
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Gut and liver
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 25963086
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.5009/gnl14338