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. 2005 May 14;330(7500):1120-1.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.38449.476759.AE. Epub 2005 Apr 18.

MMR vaccine and Crohn's disease: ecological study of hospital admissions in England, 1991 to 2002

Valerie Seagroatt  1
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MMR vaccine and Crohn's disease: ecological study of hospital admissions in England, 1991 to 2002

Valerie Seagroatt. BMJ. .
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Figure 1
Age specific rates per 10 000 population per year for emergency hospital admissions for Crohn's disease in England, 1991 to 2002. Rates in children aged <4 years were relatively low and so were excluded from the figure. Three-year groups, rather than the more conventional five-year groups, were used in order to discriminate between rates in children born before and after the introduction of MMR
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