Rheumatic disease in Han Chinese. What have we learned from 19 years of epidemiological study?

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2090-2091

  Wigley, Richard D ^a  

^a PALMERSTON NORTH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; CHINA; EDITORIAL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GOUT; HONG KONG; HUMAN; KNEE PAIN; LOW BACK PAIN; MALAYSIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RURAL AREA; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHINA; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0141531089     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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