Mortality in Elderly Onset Ulcerative Colitis: A Population-Based Cohort Study

Introduction: Elderly-onset inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) composes up to 20% of new cases of IBD, and ulcerative colitis (UC) is up to twice as common as Crohn's disease (CD) among the elderly. Some, but not all, studies have shown a modest increase in mortality among all patients with IBD. To our knowledge, no studies have evaluated the long-term mortality among patients with elderly-onset UC in the United States. Methods: We conducted a...