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A relationship between life events and the onset of symptoms in inflammatory bowel disease is reported. The incidence of life crises in patients was significantly higher than in a control group. Birth or death, actual, threatened, symbolic or fantasied were found to have occurred within the preceding 12 months in 47 of the 50 patients studied.
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