Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Immigrants to Canada And Their Children: A Population-Based Cohort Study

The risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) contributed by the environment can be elucidated by assessing the risk in migrants from low prevalence to Western countries. The incidence of IBD in immigrants to Canada and their Canadian-born children was compared with nonimmigrants.A population-based cohort of IBD patients derived from health administrative data was linked to immigration data to determine the standardized incidence of IBD in...