Transdermal nicotine for ulcerative colitis.

From: Bandolier | Date: May 1, 1997 | Copyright information

Ulcerative colitis has an incidence of 5-10 per 100,000 in the UK. For some time a lower incidence has been noticed in people who smoke cigarettes. A fine case-control study from Chicago put some figures on this, and the observation was followed by randomised trials where patients were treated with nicotine to allow us to establish causation and the magnitude of the effect.

Case-control study

One hundred patients with ulcerative colitis were matched for age a...

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