Western diseases: Current concepts and implications for pediatric surgery research and practice

Pediatric Surgery International

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 251-255

  Bickler, Stephen W ^a   DeMaio, Antonio ^b  

^a UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Appendicitis; Dietary fiber; Fetal origins hypothesis; Hygiene hypothesis; Hypothesis; Inflammatory bowel disease; Pediatrics; Tropical enteropathy; Western diseases

Indexed keywords

APPENDICITIS; ASTHMA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONSTIPATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIETARY FIBER; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DIVERTICULOSIS; ENTERITIS; ENTEROPATHY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; GALLSTONE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEMORRHOID; HIATUS HERNIA; HUMAN; HYGIENE; HYPOTHESIS; INDUSTRIALIZATION; IRRITABLE COLON; LUNG EMBOLISM; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; OBESITY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STROKE; VARICOSIS; WESTERN DISEASE;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINAL DISEASES; PEDIATRICS; SANITATION; SURGERY;

EID: 43149091016     PISSN: 01790358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00383-007-2095-3     Document Type: Review

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