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SUBMITTER: Ananthakrishnan AN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4304947 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ananthakrishnan Ashwin N AN Cheng Alice A Cagan Andrew A Cai Tianxi T Gainer Vivian S VS Shaw Stanley Y SY Churchill Susanne S Karlson Elizabeth W EW Murphy Shawn N SN Kohane Isaac I Liao Katherine P KP
Digestive diseases and sciences 20140912 2
<h4>Introduction</h4>Inflammatory bowel diseases [IBD; Crohn's disease (CD), ulcerative colitis] often affect women in their reproductive years. Few studies have analyzed the impact of mode of childbirth on long-term IBD outcomes.<h4>Methods</h4>We used a multi-institutional IBD cohort to identify all women in the reproductive age-group with a diagnosis of IBD prior to pregnancy. We identified the occurrence of a new diagnosis code for perianal complications, IBD-related hospitalization and surg ...[more]