• DOI:10.1007/BF01536701
Corpus ID: 5775169

A meta-analysis of the role of smoking in inflammatory bowel disease

@article{Calkins1989AMO,
  title={A meta-analysis of the role of smoking in inflammatory bowel disease},
  author={B. Calkins},
  journal={Digestive Diseases and Sciences},
  year={1989},
  volume={34},
  pages={1841-1854}
}

B. Calkins

Published 1989

Medicine

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

A relationship between not smoking and ulcerative colitis has been examined in all English reports. This paper evaluates the ulcerative colitis/nonsmoking and the Crohn's disease/smoking association by meta-analysis and against causality criterion for chronic diseases. A review of the literature, meta-analysis of selected studies, and assessment of causality criterion all suggest that not smoking and ulcerative colitis and smoking and Crohn's disease are consistent with a causal relationship… CONTINUE READING

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