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From my book:
It's actually quite common -- more common than both Crohn's disease and UC, and at least 60% more common than celiac disease.
CC was first described in 1976 and LC was first described in 1980, but LC was called microscopic colitis at first. MC was renamed to LC in 1989.
Tex
It's actually quite common -- more common than both Crohn's disease and UC, and at least 60% more common than celiac disease.
Results Over 5 years, 763 patients were diagnosed with CD, and 1106 were diagnosed with microscopic colitis. The standardised incidence of CD ranged from 10.4 to 15.7 per 100 000 population. The standardised incidence of microscopic colitis ranged from 16.9 to 26.2 per 100 000 population.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/743 ... mp&spon=20The age-standardised and gender-standardised incidence of MC in our population ranged from 16.9 to 26.2 per 100 000 population, which is significantly higher than the incidence rates of both ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease in the same population (11.0 and 16.5 per 100 000 population, respectively).[29] We have also documented an average incidence growth of 12% annually, which is in keeping with a trend first described by Pardi et al. between 1985 and 2001.
CC was first described in 1976 and LC was first described in 1980, but LC was called microscopic colitis at first. MC was renamed to LC in 1989.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.