Increase in age at onset of rheumatoid arthritis in Japan over a 30 year period

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 313-316

  Imanaka, Toru ^a,b   Shichikawa, Kanji ^a   Inoue, Koji ^b   Shimaoka, Yasunori ^c   Takenaka, Yoshitaka ^a   Wakitani, Shigeyuki ^d  

^a Shichikawa Arthritis Research Centre   (Japan)

^b SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^d MINAMI OSAKA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 0030912986     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.56.5.313     Document Type: Article

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