Body Mass Index Is Associated with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

BACKGROUND:Prior work suggested that patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) have lower body mass index (BMI) than controls and patients with lower BMI have more serious complications. GOAL:The study was aimed to find relationship between BMI in patients with and without IBD, investigate eff...

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Main Authors: Jie Dong, Yi Chen, Yuchen Tang, Fei Xu, Chaohui Yu, Youming Li, Prasoon Pankaj, Ning Dai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4684381?pdf=render