Ashwin N. Ananthakrishnan

ORCID: 0000-0002-9436-1821 · 3 papers in corpus
observational 2019
Association Between Vulvovaginal Discomfort and Activity of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association ·doi:10.1016/j.cgh.2019.05.018

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) affect 200-400 people per 100,000 in the United States, about half of whom are women. We aimed to define the prevalence of vulvovaginal symptoms and association with IBD activity in a lar…

review 2013
Environmental risk factors for inflammatory bowel disease
Gastroenterology & hepatology

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…

observational 2013
Oral contraceptives, reproductive factors and risk of inflammatory bowel disease
Gut ·doi:10.1136/gutjnl-2012-302362

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 …