Burden of Digestive Diseases in the United States Part II: Lower Gastrointestinal Diseases
published online 22 January 2009.
This second of 3 articles addresses procedures and diseases of the lower GI tract. The first article concerned summary data for all digestive diseases and selected upper GI diseases. The third article will address diseases of the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas. Each article extracts significant digestive disease data from the “The Burden of Digestive Diseases in the United States” report, which was compiled to support the efforts of the National Commission on Digestive Diseases.1 The full report is available at www.niddk.gov.
Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland; and Social & Scientific Systems, Inc, Silver Spring, Maryland
Reprint requests Address requests for reprints to: James E. Everhart, Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, 2 Democracy Plaza, Room 655, 6707 Democracy Boulevard, MSC 5450, Bethesda, MD 20892-5450
Conflicts of Interest The authors disclose no conflicts.
Funding Supported by HHS contracts N267200612918C and N267200700001G.
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