Upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage in African-American and hispanic elderly patients

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 7-10

  Akhtar, Abbasi J ^a,b   Ganesan, Kalpana ^a   Yoshikawa, Thomas T ^a  

^a CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b KING DREW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Elderly; Gastrointestinal; Hemorrhage; Hispanic

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0035653234     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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