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Crohn’s disease is a chronic disease of the digestive tract that can affect any segment of the digestive tract (from mouth to anus). Is it inherited crohn’s disease, hereditary?

• You can consider it to be inherited as such, but there is clearly a higher incidence in patients with a family history of Crohn’s disease.

• Between 15 and 20 percent of patients diagnosed, has a history of this disease in the family.

• For example, a couple in which both had the disease, have a 35percent chance of having a child with Crohn’s disease.