Request about stats on Crohn's pre/post WWII

[tzvia]

Posted in a different section, but I think it's better asked here:
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Hey guys! I've been searching for info on the history of Crohn's. What I want to find is specific data that shows the instance of Crohn's before WWII, and then after WWII, as our food supply began to be flooded with processed foods made with chemicals. I have heard that the instance of Crohn's/IBD jumped up at this point, but I have been unable to find the actual data. Does anyone know about this?

Thanks!

 

[kiny]

If you want the earliest cases described as interstitial enteritis from Dalziel in 1913, I made a thread about it once: http://www.crohnsforum.com/showthread.php?t=39658

 

[tzvia]

thanks, kiny

 

[mf15]

I am a big avocate that something changed prior to about 1920 in the USA where the increase in the incidence of IBD started. This paper
has some of the early data from the UK and other places.
Takes awhile to load but it will load.
Old Mike
http://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/full/v18/i15/1708.htm

 

[wild_one353]

there is probably more info then this but here is something i found.
read the introduction.

Recent advances in basic and clinical aspects of inflammatory bowel disease: Which steps in the mucosal inflammation should we block for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease?

http://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/13/2145.asp

 

[sashaz]

In one of the history books I have it says that king Edmund (or of that time) died of suspected Crohn's and that was pre 1400.