Odds of moderate or severe gastric ulceration in racehorses receiving antiulcer medications

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 223, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 336-339

  Orsini, James A ^a   Haddock, Marie ^a   Stine, Lynne ^a   Sullivan, Eileen K ^a   Rabuffo, Tara S ^a   Smith, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIULCER AGENT; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; OMEPRAZOLE; SUCRALFATE;

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GASTROSCOPY; HORSE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; STOMACH ULCER;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTI-ULCER AGENTS; BREEDING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GASTROSCOPY; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MALE; OMEPRAZOLE; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPORTS; STOMACH ULCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0042366318     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2003.223.336     Document Type: Article

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