Juvenile onset inflammatory bowel disease Is more common in people with Turner's syndrome

BMJ 1994;309:606 (3 September)

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Juvenile onset inflammatory bowel disease Is more common in people with Turner's syndrome

EDITOR, - I believe that, in their paper on inflammatory boweldisease of juvenile onset, Anne Ferguson and David M Sedgwickdo not adequately consider the possibility that the female patientswho were growing particularly slowly had Turner's syndrome.¹They report on three women with a height of 140 to 145 cm, whichis around the 50th centile for Turner's syndrome. They makeno mention of chromosomal studies being performed on these women,and I do not believe that their assessment of pubertal statuswould necessarily help in diagnosis of the syndrome. Crohn'sdisease is many times more common in people with Turner's syndromethan other people.^2,3

A M Scammell

County Hospital, Lincoln LN2 5QY

Ferguson A, Sedgwick DM. Juvenile onset inflammatory bowel disease: height and body mass index in adult life. BMJ 1994;308:1259-63. (14 May.) [Abstract/Free Full Text]
Cola JA, Grant DB. Crohn's disease in Turner's syndrome. BMJ 1981;282:950.
Price WH. A high incidence of chronic inflammatory bowel disease . . . [Full text of this article]

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