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01-01-2013 | Letter to the Editor

Reply to the letter by A. M. Bianco et al. regarding ‘‘Effects of family history on IBD characteristics in Japanese patients’’

Authors: Erika Kuwahara, Keiko Asakura, Yuji Nishiwaki, Nagamu Inoue, Mamoru Watanabe, Toshifumi Hibi, Toru Takebayashi

Published in: Journal of Gastroenterology | Issue 1/2013

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With regard to Dr. Anna Bianco’s comment that our paper did not include an analysis of Crohn’s disease (CD) patients with early-onset (under the age of 5 years) and family history (FH) of CD, we would like to say that we analyzed all 9,929 cases for which we had data on onset age. Our data showed that no patients with FH and onset before the age of 10 years, and that of 2433 patients with onset at 10 to 19 years, 60 patients (2.3 %) had FH. …

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Kuwahara E, Asakura K, Nishiwaki Y, Inoue N, Watanabe M, Hibi T, et al. Effects of family history on inflammatory bowel disease characteristics in Japanese patients. J Gastroenterol. 2012;. doi:10.1007/s00535-012-0558-3.

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Title: Reply to the letter by A. M. Bianco et al. regarding ‘‘Effects of family history on IBD characteristics in Japanese patients’’
Authors: Erika Kuwahara
Keiko Asakura
Yuji Nishiwaki
Nagamu Inoue
Mamoru Watanabe
Toshifumi Hibi
Toru Takebayashi
Publication date: 01-01-2013
Publisher: Springer Japan
Published in: Journal of Gastroenterology / Issue 1/2013
Print ISSN: 0944-1174
Electronic ISSN: 1435-5922
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00535-012-0655-3

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