Risk factors for gallstone disease in a hospital-based study

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 95, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1419-1423

  Lai, Shih Wei ^a   Ng, Kim Choy ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PERIODIC MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TAIWAN; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 0036991945     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-200212000-00013     Document Type: Article

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