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Association of Healthy Lifestyle Behaviours With Incident Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Population‐Based Prospective Cohort Study
Healthy lifestyle habits linked to new cases of inflammatory bowel disease in a large population study
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Abstract
Having 3-5 healthy lifestyle behaviours is associated with a 50% lower incidence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
- Participants with 1, 2, and 3-5 healthy lifestyle behaviours had hazard ratios of 0.75, 0.72, and 0.50 for IBD incidence, respectively.
- A trend was observed indicating that more healthy behaviours correspond to lower IBD incidence (p for trend < 0.001).
- Similar associations were found for both Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
- Never smoking was the only behaviour with a significant independent inverse association with overall IBD incidence (HR 0.70).
- Never smoking also showed a strong inverse association with the incidence of ulcerative colitis (HR 0.58).
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