The prevalence of rheumatic diseases in central Greece: A population survey

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Anagnostopoulos, Ioannis ^a   Zinzaras, Elias ^a   Alexiou, Ioannis ^a   Papathanasiou, Aphrodite A ^a   Davas, Evangelos ^a   Koutroumpas, Athanasios ^a   Barouta, Georgia ^a   Sakkas, Lazaros I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; DERMATOMYOSITIS; FEMALE; GOUT; GREECE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; VASCULITIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GOUT; GREECE; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING;

EID: 77952638635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-11-98     Document Type: Article

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