Physical Fitness in Adolescence and Subsequent Inflammatory Bowel Disease Risk

Physical fitness may reduce systemic inflammation levels relevant to the risk of symptomatic Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC); we assessed if fitness in adolescence is associated with subsequent inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) risk, independent of markers of risk and prodromal disease activity.Swedish registers provided information on a cohort of 240,984 men (after exclusions) who underwent military conscription assessments in...