Ananthakrishnan AN

Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) are chronic immunologically mediated diseases that often have a relapsing-remitting course in young persons. Genetic-risk polymorphisms explain less than one third of the heritability of dise…

BACKGROUND: Oral contraceptive use has been associated with risk of Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). OBJECTIVE: To determine whether this association is confounded or modified by other important lifestyle and reproductive …