Characteristics of Patients with Crohn’s Disease treated at the Inflammatory bowel disease centre of University Medical Centre Ljubljana Slovenia
In the last few decades, the incidence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has increased. For some time IBD was known as a disease of the Western world, however, more recent data suggest a rapid increase in IBD incidence in the Eastern part of the world. This is most likely related to industrialisation and the adoption of Westernised diet and lifestyle in the East