Risk of asthma and autoimmune diseases and related conditions in patients hospitalized for obesity

Annals of Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 289-295

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

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Autoimmunity; Comorbidity; Overweight; Psoriasis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BEHCET DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; OBESITY; PERNICIOUS ANEMIA; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK; SARCOIDOSIS; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; STANDARDIZED INCIDENCE RATIO; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASTHMA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PATIENT DISCHARGE; REGISTRIES; RISK; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84859345460     PISSN: 07853890     EISSN: 13652060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/07853890.2010.547515     Document Type: Article

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