Changes in the incidence and prevalence of rheumatoid arthritis in Kamitonda, Wakayama, Japan, 1965-1996

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 751-756

  Shichikawa, Kanji ^a   Inoue, Koji ^b   Hirota, Shigenaga ^c   Maeda, Akira ^a   Ota, Hiroshi ^d   Kimura, Masami ^e   Ushiyama, Toshio ^b   Tsujimoto, Masaki ^f  

^a YUKIOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c Hikone City Hospital   (Japan)

^d Tezukayama Hospital   (Japan)

^e Kimura Clinic   (Japan)

^f Tsujimoto Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MORBIDITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0032751476     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.58.12.751     Document Type: Article

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