Seasonal changes in symptomatic duodenal ulcer activity in Taiwan: A comparison between subjects with and without haemorrhage

Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 244, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 405-410

  Tsai, C J ^a,b   Lin, C Y ^a  

^a CHI MEI FOUNDATION HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHI MEI FOUNDATION HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Duodenal ulcer; Duodenal ulcer haemorrhage; Epidemiology; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLANGITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUODENUM ULCER; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; TAIWAN;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DUODENAL ULCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIC ULCER HEMORRHAGE; SEASONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; TAIWAN;

EID: 0031762366     PISSN: 09546820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2796.1998.00383.x     Document Type: Article

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