Familial risks for nerve, nerve root and plexus disorders in siblings based on hospitalisations in Sweden

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 80-84

  Hemminki, Kari ^a,b   Li, Xinjun ^b   Sundquist, Kristina ^b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; DISEASE; ETIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH RISK; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDER; NEUROLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SIBLING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BELL PALSY; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC RISK; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONONEUROPATHY; MORBIDITY; NERVE PLEXUS; NEURITIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHY; RADICULOPATHY; REGISTER; SIBLING; SPOUSE; SWEDEN; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SIBLINGS; SWEDEN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 33846313661     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2006.046615     Document Type: Article

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