Open AccessCharacteristics and Long-Term Outcomes of Pregnancy-Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Case-Control Study
Author(s) -
Amy Yu,
Sonia Friedman,
Ashwin N. Ananthakrishnan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
inflammatory bowel diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.932
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1536-4844
pISSN - 1078-0998
DOI - 10.1093/ibd/izaa096
Subject(s) - medicine , pregnancy , ulcerative colitis , inflammatory bowel disease , odds ratio , disease , obstetrics , postpartum period , case control study , crohn's disease , pediatrics , genetics , biology
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) frequently affects women during their reproductive years. Although the impact of pregnancy in patients with established IBD has been widely studied, the characteristics and outcomes of patients who develop a new diagnosis of IBD during pregnancy or the postpartum year ("pregnancy-onset") is not well characterized.