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Okay, so the causes, or rather, what causes ulcerative colitis? and the answer is unknown.
00:18
We, to this day, still don't know what truly causes ulcerative colitis.
00:24
However, there are some ideas, some theories.
00:27
So, there is some things that we can consider as risk factors.
00:35
So these factors, we don't know how they relate to causing ulcerative colitis, but they, people who have these risk factors tend to get ulcerative colitis more frequently than those that do not.
00:48
So, one thing is obviously genetics.
00:52
Genetics can play a role in developing ulcerative colitis.
00:57
We also have, for some reason, geographic location.
01:02
So it may be, and this is a hard one, geographic location plays a role, but that could be because of diet.
01:12
So diets are localized, right? so people in different locations have different diets.
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But also, people in different locations have different genetics, right? the genetics of someone in the united states is going to be completely different from the genetics of someone in turkey.
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So, on average, there's obviously people -to -people differences, but there can be, but there are geographic differences in genetics as well...