Crohn's Disease - What Increases Your Risk
Factors that may increase your risk of developing Crohn's disease include:
- Having a family history of Crohn's disease. Your risk increases if an immediate family member, such as a parent, brother, or sister, has the disease.
- Having Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry.
- Smoking cigarettes.
Factors that may cause Crohn's disease symptoms to flare up include:
There isn't one test that can tell you whether or not you have Crohn's disease. And Crohn's disease has many possible symptoms that are the same as symptoms for other health problems. So, to make a diagnosis of Crohn's disease, your doctor is likely to gather information from multiple sources. You'll probably go through a combination of exams, lab tests, and imaging studies with these goals in mind: rule out other health problems that have similar symptoms make a clear diagnosis of Crohn...
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- Medicines.
- Infections.
- Hormonal changes.
- Lifestyle changes.
- Smoking.
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