Comorbidity profiles among patients with ankylosing spondylitis: A nationwide population-based study

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1165-1168

  Kang, Jiunn Horng ^a   Chen, Yi Hua ^b   Lin, Herng Ching ^c  

^a TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BLOOD DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEADACHE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIGRAINE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OBESITY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE; TAIWAN; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING; TAIWAN;

EID: 77953694951     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2009.116178     Document Type: Article

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