Obesity Increases the Risks of Diverticulitis and Diverticular Bleeding

Gastroenterology

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Strate, Lisa L ^a,b   Liu, Yan L ^c   Aldoori, Walid H ^d   Syngal, Sapna ^e,f,g   Giovannucci, Edward L ^c,e,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d Wyeth Consumer Healthcare Inc   (Canada)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLON HEMORRHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVERTICULITIS; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; AGED; COHORT ANALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; DIVERTICULITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 59849127967     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2008.09.025     Document Type: Article

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