Longitudinal study of Chinese patients with pernicious anaemia

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 84, Issue 998, 2008, Pages 644-650

  Chan, J C W ^a   Liu, H S Y ^a   Kho, B C S ^a   Lau, T K H ^a   Li, V L ^a   Chan, F H Y ^a   Leong, I S ^a   Pang, H K ^a   Lee, C K ^a   Liang, Y S ^a  

^a PAMELA YOUDE NETHERSOLE EASTERN HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CYANOCOBALAMIN; HEMOGLOBIN; INTRINSIC FACTOR ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CHINESE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUODENUM CARCINOMA; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; GLOSSITIS; GRAVES DISEASE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MEGALOBLASTIC ANEMIA; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PERNICIOUS ANEMIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STOMACH CARCINOMA; SUBACUTE COMBINED DEGENERATION; SURVIVAL; THALASSEMIA; THYROID DISEASE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA, PERNICIOUS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; VITAMIN B 12; VITAMIN B COMPLEX;

EID: 61849173450     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: 14690756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.2007.067421     Document Type: Article

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