Influence of coffee drinking and cigarette smoking on the risk of primary late onset blepharospasm: Evidence from a multicentre case control study

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 78, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 877-879

  Defazio, Giovanni ^a   Martino, D ^a   Abbruzzese, G ^b   Girlanda, P ^c   Tinazzi, M ^d   Fabbrini, G ^e   Colosimo, C ^e   Aniello, M S ^a   Avanzino, L ^b   Buccafusca, M ^c   Majorana, G ^c   Trompetto, C ^b   Livrea, P ^a   Berardelli, A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^e SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEPHAROSPASM; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COFFEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 34547635624     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2007.119891     Document Type: Article

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