Population based study of 12 autoimmune diseases in sardinia, italy: Prevalence and comorbidity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Sardu, Claudia ^a   Cocco, Eleonora ^a   Mereu, Alessandra ^a   Massa, Roberta ^a   Cuccu, Alessandro ^a   Marrosu, Maria Giovanna ^a   Contu, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS; CELIAC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PREVALENCE; PSORIASIS; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ARTHRITIS, PSORIATIC; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CELIAC DISEASE; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COMORBIDITY; CROHN DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; HUMANS; ITALY; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; PSORIASIS; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SJOGREN'S SYNDROME; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE;

EID: 84857734151     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032487     Document Type: Article

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