Intestinal malabsorption in the elderly

Digestive Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 144-150

  Holt, Peter R ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Celiac disease; Intestinal micronutrient absorption; Investigation of structural changes; Pancreatic disease; Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth syndrome; Small intestine, structural and functional changes; Vitamin B12 malabsorption

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBOHYDRATE; CYANOCOBALAMIN; TRACE ELEMENT; VITAMIN D;

ACHLORHYDRIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE; CELIAC DISEASE; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GLUTEN FREE DIET; HUMAN; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE INFECTION; INTESTINE LYMPHOMA; INTESTINE PSEUDOOBSTRUCTION; MACRONUTRIENT; MALABSORPTION; PANCREAS DISEASE; PANCREAS INSUFFICIENCY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; SMALL INTESTINE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANIMALS; CELIAC DISEASE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DIARRHEA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; EXOCRINE PANCREATIC INSUFFICIENCY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTESTINAL DISEASES; MALABSORPTION SYNDROMES; PROGNOSIS; RATS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 34247489795     PISSN: 02572753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000099479     Document Type: Article

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