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Early Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease

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About 20–30 % of individuals with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have symptom onset before 30 years of age and have lifelong disease. Ten to fifteen percent of all IBD patients have an established diagnosis under the age of 18 years. Young children (i.e., under 6 years of age) with IBD represent a unique cohort of patients that is recognized as a valuable group of patients to investigate due to their relative lack of environmental exposures compared with older patients. However, information is sparse regarding the presentation and course of disease in this subset of patients. We therefore present information on both early onset (0–5 years) and later onset (6–18 years) pediatric IBD.

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Supported in part by NIH Grants K24-DK060617 (MBH) and 5K23DK077734 (NG)

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, University of California San Francisco, 500 Parnassus Ave, MU 4-East, 0136, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0136, USA

    Melvin B. Heyman MD, MPH

  2. Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

    Neera Gupta MD, MAS

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  1. Perelman School of Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, 34th St. & Civic Ctr. Blvd., Philadelphia, 19104, Pennsylvania, USA

    Petar Mamula

  2. School of Medicine--Greenville, Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition, University of South Carolina, 200 Patewood Drive, Suite A-140, Greenville, 29615, South Carolina, USA

    Jonathan E. Markowitz

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Heyman, M.B., Gupta, N. (2013). Early Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease. In: Mamula, P., Markowitz, J., Baldassano, R. (eds) Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5061-0_6

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