Prevalence of comorbidity in patients with a chronic airway obstruction and controls over the age of 40

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 287-293

  Van Manen, J G ^a   Bindels, P J E ^a   IJzermans, C J ^a   Van Der Zee, J S ^a   Bottema, B J A M ^b   Schade E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chronic airway obstruction; Chronic disease; Comorbidity; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CANCER; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUODENUM ULCER; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSOMNIA; LOCOMOTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRAINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SINUSITIS; STOMACH ULCER;

ADULT; AGED; ASTHMA; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS;

EID: 0035134410     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(01)00346-8     Document Type: Article

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