Fun Facts
- Chemicals known as reactive oxygen metabolite may play an important role in Ulcerative Colitis but more studies are needed to confirm
- Ulcerative Colitis is especially common in people of Jewish decent
- Ulcerative Colitis is rarely seen in Eastern Europe, Asia, and South America
- Ulcerative Colitis is rare in the black population
- First degree relatives from patients with Ulcerative Colitis have an increased lifetime risk of developing the disease, but the overall risk remains small
- Ulcerative Colitis was named in 1875 in a medical textbook published in London, England
- Men and Women are equal for receiving Ulcerative Colitis
- Estimates of the number of cases in Canada for Ulcerative Colitis range from 10 per 100,000 to 100 per 100,000 patients
- Ulcerative Colitis has not increased significantly of late
- There's a 10% chance of Ulcerative Colitis in other members of the extended family
- 5% chance of your child getting Ulcerative Colitis, but if both parents have Ulcerative Colitis there is a 50% of your child getting Ulcerative Colitis