HEALTH
High Rate of Surgery in Patients With Crohn’s Disease
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Scientific data indicate that the chance of a patient with Crohn’s disease undergoing intestinal surgical resection increases from 16% in the first year of diagnosis to almost 50% in the 10 years following detection of the disease. Until now, these estimates have mainly been based on studies that analyzed populations in North America and Scandinavia…