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- Title
Elderly Adults with Late-Onset Ulcerative Colitis Tend to Have Atypical, Milder Initial Clinical Presentations but Higher Surgical Rates and Mortality: A Taiwan Society of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Study.
- Authors
Lin, Wei ‐ Chen; Tung, Chien ‐ Chih; Lin, Hung ‐ Hsin; Lin, Chun ‐ Chi; Chang, Chen ‐ Wang; Yen, Hsu ‐ Heng; Chuang, Chiao ‐ Hsiung; Hsu, Wen ‐ Hung; Tsai, Wen ‐ Sy; Wang, Horng ‐ Yuan; Lin, Jen ‐ Kou; Wei, Shu ‐ Chen; Wong, Jau ‐ Min
- Abstract
A letter to the editor is presented in response to several research studies on the clinical presentation and prognosis of ulcerative colitis in elderly adults, and it mentions proctitis, inflammatory bowel disease, and the risk of death in older people.
- Subjects
TAIWAN; ULCERATIVE colitis; DISEASES in older people; PROCTITIS; PROGNOSIS; MORTALITY; STATISTICAL hypothesis testing; T-test (Statistics); OLD age; RETROSPECTIVE studies
- Publication
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2016, Vol 64, Issue 10, pe95
- ISSN
0002-8614
- Publication type
Letter to the Editor
- DOI
10.1111/jgs.14427