Original scientific paper
Epidemiology and Clinical Presentation of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Zadar County, Croatia
Ivo Klarin
; General Hospital Zadar, Zadar, Croatia
Ljiljana Majnarić
; University »Josip Juraj Strossmayer«, School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Osijek, Croatia
Željko Jovanović
; University »Josip Juraj Strossmayer«, School of Medicine, Osijek, Croatia
Dario Nakić
; University »Josip Juraj Strossmayer«, School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Osijek, Croatia
Ivan Včev
; University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia
Aleksandar Včev
; University »Josip Juraj Strossmayer«, Osijek University Hospital Centre, Clinic for Internal Medicine, Osijek, Croatia
Abstract
Results of the retrospective, population-based study, 2000–2010, on inflammatory bowel disease, ulceratice colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD), from Zadar County, have been presented and compared with world experience and com- parative data from Primorsko-Goranska and Vukovarsko-Srijemska Counties. The average incidence rates (per 100 000) were 8.2 and 8.4, for UC and CD, respectively. Prevalence rates, at the end of the follow up, were 133.9 for UC and 111 for CD. Constant increase in the incidence rates for both, UC and CD, have been recorded, for CD more prominently in the second part of the follow up, 2006–2010. Prevalence rates have being continuosly rased for both diseases, data for UC ex- ceeding that for CD. Results of data comparison among the counties contribute in favour to the hypothesis of Zadar County as a rapidly developing area and strongly argue against the existence of the North-South gradient between Vukovarsko-Srijemska and Zadar Counties.
Keywords
Inflammatory bowel disease; Crohn's disease; ulcerative colitis; retrospective population-based study; Zadar County; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
118362
URI
Publication date:
30.12.2013.
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