Organ failure associated with acute pancreatitis in African-American and Hispanic patients

Journal of the National Medical Association

Volumn 99, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1402-1406

  Shaheen, Magda A ^a   Akhtar, Abbasi J ^a  

^a CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Latinos; Pancreas

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE COURSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PANCREATITIS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 37349057892     PISSN: 00279684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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