Subsequent Autoimmune or Related Disease in Asthma Patients: Clustering of Diseases or Medical Care?

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 217-222

  Hemminki, Kari ^a,b,c   Li, Xinjun ^c   Sundquist, Jan ^c,d   Sundquist, Kristina ^b,c  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease Aggregation; Immunological Diseases; Individual Risks; National Database

Indexed keywords

ADDISON DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CELIAC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENE INTERACTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SWEDEN;

ASTHMA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; REGISTRIES; RISK; SWEDEN;

EID: 75949102464     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2009.11.007     Document Type: Article

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