Open AccessTemporal Change in Phenotypic Behaviour in Patients with Crohn’s Disease: Do Indian Patients Behave Differently from Western and Other Asian Patients?
Author(s) -
Rishikesh Kalaria,
Devendra Desai,
Philip Abraham,
Anand Joshi,
Tarun Gupta,
Sudeep Shah
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of crohn's and colitis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.277
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1876-4479
pISSN - 1873-9946
DOI - 10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjv202
Subject(s) - disease , crohn's disease , medicine , interquartile range , clinical phenotype , gastroenterology , inflammatory bowel disease , phenotype , biology , biochemistry , gene
In Western studies, one-third of patients with Crohn's disease have stricturing or penetrating disease at presentation and one-half will progress to complicated disease in 20 years. Asian studies indicate that the Asian disease phenotype may be different. Our aim was to study the disease behaviour in Indian patients with Crohn's disease.