Seasonality in flares and months of births of patients with ulcerative colitis in a Chinese population

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1094-1098

  Bai, Aiping ^a   Guo, Yuan ^a   Shen, Yuhuan ^b   Xie, Yong ^a   Zhu, Xuan ^a   Lu, Nonghua ^a  

^a NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Gastroenterology   (China)

Author keywords

Environmental factor; Seasonality; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BIRTH RATE; CHINESE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; SUMMER; SYMPTOM; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; WINTER;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIRTH RATE; CHINA; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; HUMANS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS;

EID: 63949085828     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-008-0453-1     Document Type: Article

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