Racial differences in disease extent and severity in patients with ulcerative colitis: A retrospective cohort study

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2754-2760

  Flasar, Mark H ^a,b   Quezada, Sandra ^b   Bijpuria, Priti ^b   Cross, Raymond K ^a,b  

^a Veterans Affairs   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Disease severity; Inflammatory bowel disease; Race; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON RESECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; COHORT STUDIES; COLECTOMY; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARYLAND; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STEROIDS;

EID: 50949085419     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-007-0190-x     Document Type: Article

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