Hospitalized prevalence and 5-year mortality for IBD: Record linkage study

Figure 1 WIMD 2005 quintiles for the 22 health boards and the 1896 geographical LSOAs in Wales. The key to the health board numbering is as follow: 1 Blaenau Gwent; 2 Bridgend; 3 Caerphilly; 4 Cardiff; 5 Carmarthenshire; 6 Ceredigion; 7 Conwy; 8 Denbighshire; 9 Flintshire; 10 Gwynedd; 11 Isle of Anglesey; 12 Merthyr Tydfil; 13 Monmouthshire; 14 Neath Port Talbot; 15 Newport; 16 Pembrokeshire; 17 Powys; 18 Rhondda Cynon Taff; 19 Swansea; 20 Torfaen; 21 The Vale of Glamorgan; 22 Wrexham.

Figure 2 Hospitalized prevalence of severe Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis according to social deprivation, 1999-2007. I: Least deprived social deprivation quintile; V: Most deprived. Vertical bars represent 95% CI. These prevalence rates are standardised for age group and gender.