One Size Doesn't Fit All: IBD in Arabs and Jews in Israel, Potential Environmental and Genetic Impacts
Journal Title: Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology and Treatment - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is influenced by genetic susceptibility and surrounding environmental factors. Despite unknown etiology, the environmental factors are continuously unraveled. Studying ethnical differences in a well characterized and stable region might disclose etiologies and pathophysiological mechanism. The ethnical trends in IBD in Israel disclosed incidents, epidemiological, clinical, therapeutical and morbidity differences between the Arabs and Jews dwelling in a non-migrant, stable, Arab and Jewish distinct homogenous ethnic populations, district.
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- DOI 10.23937/2469-584X/1510040
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