title: The distribution of ulcerative colitis and regional enteritis in United States veterans with particular reference to the Jewish religion.
abstract: In a sample of patients, discharged from Veterans Administration Hospitals in the United States, suffering from ulcerative colitis and regional enteritis and mixed forms of these diseases, the proportion of Jews was four times as high as in a corresponding sample of general medical and surgical patients.
mesh_terms: D003092:Colitis; D003093:Colitis, Ulcerative / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004194:Disease; D005006:Ethnicity; D006801:Humans; D007079:Ileitis; D007585:Jews; D014481:United States; D014728:Veterans
keywords: COLITIS, ULCERATIVE/statistics; ILEITIS, REGIONAL/statistics; JEWS/diseases