Crohn's disease: Presentation and severity compared between black patients and white patients

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1404-1409

  Deveaux, Peter G ^a   Kimberling, Jennifer ^a   Galandiuk, Susan ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Black; Crohn's disease; Fistulas; Inflammatory bowel disease; Perianal disease; Rectovaginal fistula

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROHN DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; ENTERITIS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; FISTULA; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROHN DISEASE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL FISTULA; KENTUCKY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 21644471401     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-005-0034-8     Document Type: Article

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