Authors: Kotton Camille Nelson
Publish Date: 2007/09/01
Volume: 13, Issue: 9, Pages: 1178-1179
Abstract
Are patients with inflammatory bowel disease IBD at increased risk for herpes zoster Gupta et al used the General Practice Research Database from 1988–1997 a database of primary care medical records from the United Kingdom representing 6 of the population to perform a retrospective cohort study and a retrospective nested casecontrol study to answer this question Previous work has proven the accuracy of this database for epidemiologic studies including those involving IBD In the cohort study which compared IBD with nonIBD patients 7823 Crohns disease CD and 11930 ulcerative colitis UC patients were matched on age sex and primary care practice to 79563 randomly selected controls without IBD In the nested casecontrol study 185 CD patients
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