Background & Aims Multiple environmental factors have been associated with the
development of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs). We performed an umbrella review of …

AIM: Advances in genetics and immunology have contributed to the current understanding of
the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). METHODS: The current opinion on …

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic, progressive immune‐mediated inflammatory
condition of the gastrointestinal tract. Environmental risk factors play a role in developing …

Background While the incidence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has stabilised in the
West, it is still increasing in several newly industrialised countries. Aims To investigate …

Inflammatory bowel diseases comprising Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC)
are chronic immunologically mediated diseases. The key mechanism underlying the …

In the last several years there has been an explosion in the discovery of inflammatory bowel
disease (IBD) susceptibility genes; however, similar advances in identifying and defining …

Objective. Environmental factors have been implicated in the etiology of inflammatory bowel
disease (IBD), but evidence for the hygiene hypothesis is unclear. We investigated the …

Background: The role of environmental factors in development of inflammatory bowel
disease (IBD) remains uncertain. The aim of the present study was to assess a number of …

Background According to the hygiene hypothesis, individuals raised in a sanitary
environment have a higher risk of developing inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). However …

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), including both Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis,
are disorders of chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract marked by episodes of …