Swiss tertiary care center experience challenges the age-cohort effect in helicobacter pylori infection

Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 373-377

  Gruber, Damian ^a   Pohl, Daniel ^a   Vavricka, Stephan ^a   Stutz, Bernadette ^a   Fried, Michael ^a   Tutuian, Radu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

13C urea breath test; Dyspepsia; Helicobacter pylori

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPEPSIA; ERADICATION THERAPY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC PATHOLOGY; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PREVALENCE; SWITZERLAND; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREND STUDY; UREA BREATH TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREATH TESTS; COHORT EFFECT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; DYSPEPSIA; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SWITZERLAND; UREA; URTICARIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65549156347     PISSN: 18418724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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