Psychosocial Factors and the Disorders of GI Function: What is the Link?

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 358-360

  Drossman, Douglas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DYSPEPSIA; EDITORIAL; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EVALUATION; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION DISORDER; LEGAL ASPECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 1442350424     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2004.04076.x     Document Type: Editorial

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