Crohn's disease in one mixed-race population in Brazil

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 13, Issue 33, 2007, Pages 4489-4492

  Santana, Genoile Oliveira ^a,b,c   Lyra, Luiz Guilherme Costa ^a,b   Santana, Tamara Celi Almeida ^a   Dos Reis, Lidiane Bianca ^a   Guedes, Jorge Carvalho ^a   Toralles, Maria Betania ^a   Lyra, André Castro ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^b San Rafael Hospital   (Brazil)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Crohn's disease; Inflammatory bowel disease; Race; Racial group

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; STEROID;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CAUCASIAN; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON DISEASE; COLON SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; RACE DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT;

EID: 34548671414     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v13.i33.4489     Document Type: Article

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